4 The Ultimate Innovation Machine AI in R&D and Business Innovation
AlphaGo’s defeat of the world’s greatest GO player marked a significant breakthrough in AI, but mastering complex games was never the ultimate goal. “We started off with games because it was more efficient to develop AI and test things out in games for various reasons,” says Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind. “But ultimately that was never the end goal. The end goal was to develop things like AlphaFold”—what he calls general-purpose algorithms that could be applied to real-world problems.1
Thanks to multiple generative AI models and AlphaFold protein structures, Insilico Medicine synthesized a potential drug to treat hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver ...
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