Is artificial intelligence deserving of all the hype?

Artificial intelligence is moving into all areas of engineering, science, business and industry; indeed, AI is now the dominant approach, pushing others to the background. Recently, DeepMind, owned by Google, demonstrated an algorithm called AlphaFold to predict the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. This is a fundamental problems in biology. Laboratory methods are laborious and therefore progress has been slow. AlphaFold would make the process very fast and thereby greatly accelerate important applications such as discovering new drugs.