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AI for Science
How machine learning became a scientific instrument: AlphaFold and the protein-folding problem, AI weather models, materials discovery, fusion control, and the limits (validation, data, hallucination).
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Prereqs: Neural networks; Hinton, LeCun & Bengio. Next: Katalin Karikó & mRNA. Sources: Jumper et al., 'Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold', *Nature* (2021); Lam et al., GraphCast, *Science* (2023); Nobel Chemistry 2024 press release.Next: 1. AlphaFold