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And protein folding + Nobel Prize
by hexeater 2mo ago
And protein folding + Nobel Prize
- AFF87 2mo agoBaffles me how this is not that well known
- freakynit 2mo agoAnd AlphaGo Zero .. probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.
- smokel 2mo agoI think that credit might go to IBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon
- jeremyjh 2mo agoIt was a huge advancement but it did not beat the world champion. AlphaGo is noted for being a self-learning system that became better than all humans. Chess engines had long been there but were not self-learning before AlphaZero.
- BeetleB 2mo ago> probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans. Isn't that Checkers right from the dawn of reinforcement learning?
- tantalor 2mo agoGoogle DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/ https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375
- joaogui1 2mo agoI won't comment much on this, but I'd say these articles are 2-3 years late and reduces the agency of the people, who in many cases moved to Gemini because they wanted to work on LLMs
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