[ExI] ‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 02:19:29 UTC 2020


Protein folding - is this an example of a problem that a human being simply
could not solve without computers?  Or without AI?  bill w

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 7:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Adam A. Ford via extropy-chat
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> I agree, this is extremely exciting - cognisant of my excitement, is it
> fair to say that protein folding has been solved?
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> For the last several years, one of the events in the local high school
> Science Olympiad has been is to figure out how to create a shape using the
> known rules of protein folding.  From what I understand, this is saying
> that now the champion of that sport is software.
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