Key Insights That Will Help You Make The Most Of AI - AI Summary

Or, as tech luminary Mike Olson suggested, "The breathless attention paid to AGI and self-driving cars and whatnot blinds [us] to the value of narrowly-focused AI applications." By "narrowly focused" he was referring to the DeepMind announcement that it had released the "predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science". This advance dramatically opens access to protein structures, thereby accelerating scientific discovery in fields as diverse as medicine and climate change. As I've written, often the best machine learning (ML) is "just" pattern matching at a scale no human could hope to replicate. In fact, as good as machines are, and as smart as people can be, the mapping of all known proteins simply couldn't have been possible without data, as Ewan Birney, deputy director general of EMBL, stipulated.