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DeepMind AlphaFold

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Deep Blue 1997 --> AlphaGo 2015 --> AlphaFold 2, 2020
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Re: DeepMind AlphaFold

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So by taking part twice in a competition over four years they produced an algorithm "scoring" on average over 90% (basically solving the problem) whereas in the last eight installments (over the last 16 years!) the competition plateaued at around 60% each time... And even more mind-bogglingly in the 22 years before DeepMind took part in the competition other participants only managed to better the score by around 15%... in 22 years!

Simply astonishing. Kurzweil's law in practice.

And a limited AlphaFold-1-version (CASP13-version) was made available on GitHub for everyone.
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