Tosin Joseph, UK-based Tech Expert, Opens Up on Al, Robotics, Others (Feature)

Speaking on Al recently, Joseph noted that Al interventions have spread across different fields. “From drug discovery to diagnostics and personalized medicine, the breakthroughs with Al have been unfolding and ground-breaking. With Al, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has been able to unfold the difficult mystery around the protein-folding problem that researchers have been battling with for over 50 years. This discovery is important as everything around understanding cell structures and functions depends on it and it is key in designing precision drugs faster. With Al, predictive medicine will do a lot for humanity.” He cited an example with AlphaMissense, an Al model also from DeepMind. My “It has the ability to predict whether genetic mutations (missense variants) are harmful, helping scientists identify disease-causing mutations ahead of time efficiently. Aside from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Recursion, and Salesforce are in the race to leverage Al to accelerate drug discovery with their individual protein project. NVIDIA’s BioNeMo platform, for instance, uses generative Al to simulate biological molecules, drastically speeding up new drug development. …