"Beyond the chatbots and productivity tools that have dominated public attention, AI is extending the reach of cutting-edge science and helping scientists globally tackle some of the greatest challenges facing their communities. This profound shift remains underappreciated-and it is leaving the technology's immense benefits largely untapped. Unlocking AI's potential to accelerate science is a defining goal for both of us."
"Five years ago, our AlphaFold AI system solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and brought AI-enabled scientific breakthroughs to the forefront. What's less known is that since then, the freely available AlphaFold Protein Database has been used by more than 3 million researchers across more than 190 countries. More than one-third of those researchers are working in low- and middle- income countries."
"It's rapidly become a standard tool for scientists tackling some of the world's most pressing issues. Access to this knowledge is enabling researchers to take on regional problems with global significance - from scientists at the National University of Malaysia working to understand how Meliodosis, a disease more deadly than dengue, spreads in order to accelerate new treatment to researchers at India's Birla Institute of Technology and Science breeding soybeans resistant to charcoal rot infections."
AI is extending the reach of cutting-edge science and helping researchers worldwide address local and global challenges. AlphaFold solved the 50-year protein structure prediction problem and its freely available Protein Database has been used by over 3 million researchers in more than 190 countries, with over one-third in low- and middle-income countries. The database has become a standard tool for tackling pressing problems such as studying Meliodosis spread in Malaysia and breeding soybean resistant to charcoal rot in India. AlphaFold provides a major proof point of AI's scientific impact, and emerging open-access AI co-scientist tools are beginning to generate novel hypotheses and uncover original knowledge.
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