A new golden age of discovery
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Seizing the AI for Science opportunity
By Conor Griffin, Don Wallace, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Hanna Schieve and Pushmeet Kohli. A quiet revolution is brewing in labs around the world, where scientists’ use of AI is growing exponentially. One in three postdocs now use large language models to help carry out literature reviews, coding, and editing. In October, the creators of our AlphaFold 2 system, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, became Nobel Laureates in Chemistry for using AI to predict the structure of proteins, alongside the scientist David Baker, for his work to design new proteins. Society will soon start to feel these benefits…
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