Deepmind, the AI system part of the Google stable, that is good at games like chess and Go, has apparently solved one of the big riddles of the biological sciences - how proteins fold.
Scientists reckon this could be the dawn of a new era of medical and scientific discovery. Stalker wonders what Fugaku, the Japanese supercomputer thinks of it all. One wonders if it’ll come out with some new gnomic utterances, just to keep up appearances. We shall wait and see.
Meanwhile China has announced that it has developed a quantum computer that can do calculations 10 billion times faster than Google’s quantum computing prototype.
