I really enjoyed the documentary.
But now the team have gone onto to make a breakthrough in the CASP competiiton, A bi-annual comp on predicting 3d structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Its been one of the holy grails in biology for decades. We have had limited success with human driven methodologies, but it been taking years, is expensive and doesnt always work. Aphafold can now do it quickly, cheaply, and with a higher success rate. Its one of those breakthroughs were it is difficult exactly to predict the implications but they could be truly massive and many.... in developing and directing research for humans.
Another thing to ask yourself is rate of improvement. How much farther and how quickly can alphafold progress from here? Can alphafold eventually start making preidictions about how proteins interact with each other and in their environement....
The chinese also definitely achieved quatum supremacy last week at room temperature. Looks like there is little doubt unlike the debated google efforts last year. They have also developed a second platform using photons/light and mirrors. We are going to have multiple chances at finding a workable quantum computing platform that could work with A.I. to solve previously unsolvable problems.
