AlphaFold developer says AI is just getting started in science

The director of Google DeepMind and newly-minted chemistry Nobel laureate, John Jumper, has said that protein prediction programs like AlphaFold are just the start of artificial intelligence in biology and beyond.

‘I really do hope that in time we will see AlphaFold as one of the first AI systems that deeply mattered [for] biology but just one of many, many that did,’ Jumper said during a symposium to honour this year’s Nobel prize laureates at the Swedish embassy in Washington DC held in partnership with the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).