Earlier this week, the Google-owned AI development company DeepMind announced with great fanfare that it had built an algorithm capable of predicting how proteins would fold based on their molecular composition. If it holds up, it's a stunning achievement that's eluded scientists for decades. But Business Insider reports that many experts in the field remain unimpressed, instead calling DeepMind's announcement hype. While critical scientists don't diminish the importance of DeepMind's achievement, they do question whether AlphaFold 2 will actually provide a useful tool to researchers like DeepMind claims. DeepMinds' AlphaFold 2 algorithm scored higher at the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, which tests potential solutions to the protein folding problem, than any other team in history.