50-year-old problem of biology solved by Artificial Intelligence
DeepMind's AI system 'AlphaFold' has been recognised as a solution to "protein folding", a grand challenge in biology for over 50 years. DeepMind showed it can predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes, a complex process that is fundamental to understanding the biological machinery of life. AlphaFold can predict the shape of proteins within the width of an atom.