人工智能正在接管药物开发
经济学人: The most striking evidence that artificial intelligence can provide profound scientific breakthroughs came with the unveiling of a program called AlphaFold by Google DeepMind. In 2016 researchers at the company had scored a big success with AlphaGo, an AI system which, having essentially taught itself the rules of Go, went on to beat the most highly rated human players of the game, sometimes by using tactics no one had ever foreseen. This emboldened the company to build a system that would work out a far more complex set of rules: those through which the sequence of amino acids which defines a particular protein leads to the shape that sequence folds into when that protein is actually made. AlphaFold found those rules and applied them with astonishing success. 人工智能可以提供深刻的科学突破的最引人注目的证据来自谷歌 DeepMind 推出的一个名为 AlphaFold 的程序。2016 年,该公司的研究人员在 AlphaGo 上取得了巨大的成功,AlphaGo 是一个人工智能系统,它基本上自学了围棋规则,继续击败了游戏中评价最高的人类玩家,有时使用没有人预见到的策略。这鼓励了该公司建立一个系统,该系统将制定一套更复杂的规则:通过这些规则,定义特定蛋白质的氨基酸序列导致该序列在实际制造蛋白质时折叠成