Social RoboticsAlphaFold creators share Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were honoured for AI protein structure prediction, alongside David Baker for protein design.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for AlphaFold. Their AI system predicts the structure of proteins and is now widely used in research. Coming a day after the physics prize, it marked an unprecedented week of scientific recognition for AI. The awards underlined how mainstream deep learning had become as the technology powering conversational and embodied AI matured.
Source: NobelPrize.org
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