AlphaFold, every mention
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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:31 Jeff Dean Yeah, I mean, I think, like, if you look at, ah, my colleague's work on, say, alpha fold, that was a very specific model for, ah, protein folding, and it was highly successful.
- ▶ 31:20 Diana Hu So if some of you find a problem that's similar shape like alpha fold could be a good problem to work on.
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:20 Garry Tan AlphaFold cracked protein structure prediction, a 50 year grand challenge in biology, and they gave it away for free to every scientist on Earth.
- ▶ 18:38 Demis Hassabis What I often say about that is, like, if we look at the things we've done, like AlphaGo, so obviously, very famously, you'll all know about the move-thirty-seven in game two, and for me, I was waiting for a moment like that to start the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Demis Hassabis We're huge proponents of, in general, of open source and open science, and you mentioned AlphaFold at the beginning, you know, we put that all out there for free, and all of our science work, even still today, we publish in, you know, the…
- ▶ 25:27 Garry Tan AlphaFold III took us beyond proteins to a broad spectrum of biomolecules.
- ▶ 25:39 Demis Hassabis Well, at isomorphic labs, which we spun out from, from, from, from DeepMind after we did AlphaFold II,
- ▶ 25:48 Demis Hassabis It's, it's, it's trying to build out, uh, not just alpha fold.
- ▶ 29:24 Demis Hassabis And alpha fold is the prototypical example of what we want to do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:59 Demis Hassabis And the ones you mentioned, I think we're almost like an alpha fold one moment.
- ▶ 33:24 Garry Tan So, I mean, AlphaFold was like an example of a spike that you pursued and it worked, you know, what makes the scientific domain ripe for an AlphaFold style breakthrough? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:14 Garry Tan I guess to get a little meta, I mean, we were talking about humans using these methods to create AlphaFold, but then there's a meta level, which is humans using AI to explore the space of possible hypotheses.
- ▶ 39:47 Demis Hassabis And it goes a little bit back to what you said earlier about alpha fold and general AI systems. 2 times in the scene