Deep Learning is a pattern matching algorithm. Quantum Computing is an ab initio method. it starts from scratch and is supposed to solve any problem of a specific type thrown at it. Congratulations to the DeepMind team. But apart from the vendor speak and jargons this is the announcement from the CASP14 organizers
"During the latest round of the challenge, DeepMind’s AlphaFold program has determined the shape of around two thirds of the proteins with accuracy comparable to laboratory experiments*. AlphaFold’s accuracy with most of the other proteins was also high, though not quite at that level."
Automatski believes the solutions to the worlds most pressing problems cannot be done using function approximation or pattern matching which is Deep Learning in entirety. We simply cannot train on known structures and try to construct new solutions from existing patterns. Thats NOT how we solve problems in a space of gazillions of unknowns. We need an Ab initio approach that can solve any problem thrown at it, amongst gazillions of possible problems at the scale of this universe. That and only that will define the next millennium of mankind. – Amen!
Here is the press release from CASP14 organizers https://www.predictioncenter.org/casp14/doc/CASP14_press_release.html
And here is the video from the DeepMind Team
Its a free world. Please believe whatever you want to believe. Automatski is only in the business of dealing with facts and millennium inventions.
Think about it. 😊
