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DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! 🧬
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
Protein database:
https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
More on this:
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
https://deepmind.com/research/case-studies/alphafold
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/putting-the-power-of-alphafold-into-the-worlds-hands
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00:00 What is protein folding?
01:00 Is it so hard!
04:08 CASP
05:15 AlphaFold's results
06:41 Let's look inside!
07:41 Iterative refinement
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08:51 Transformers
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10:58 Adding physics knowledge
13:00 What is this good for?
13:33 A gift to humanity!
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14:56 AlphaFold's weaknesses
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'start': 131.673, 'duration': 2.942}, {'end': 140.337, 'text': 'And yes, chess is hard, but these days, the AI can manage.', 'start': 135.415, 'duration': 4.922}, {'end': 143.298, 'text': 'Then, Go is the next level.', 'start': 141.077, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 147.08, 'text': 'This is not just hard, it is really hard.', 'start': 143.898, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 155.884, 'text': "The space of possible moves is significantly bigger, and we can't just evaluate all the long-term effects of our moves.", 'start': 147.8, 'duration': 8.084}, {'end': 164.251, 'text': "it is even more hopeless than chess, and that's often why people say that this game requires some sort of intuition to play.", 'start': 155.884, 'duration': 8.367}, {'end': 173.338, 'text': "But, DeepMind's AI solved that too, and beat the world champion Go player 4-1 in a huge media event.", 'start': 164.931, 'duration': 8.407}], 'summary': "Deepmind's ai can learn and excel at multiple games, including chess and go, beating the world champion go player 4-1.", 'duration': 60.818, 'max_score': 112.52, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q112520.jpg'}, {'end': 307.176, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 250.408, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 255.933, 'text': "I've heard DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis call it the Olympics of protein folding.", 'start': 250.408, 'duration': 5.525}, {'end': 265.222, 'text': 'If you look at how teams of scientists prepare for this event, you will probably agree that yes, this is indeed the Olympics of protein folding.', 'start': 256.534, 'duration': 8.688}, {'end': 271.861, 'text': 'At about a score of 90, we can think of protein folding as a mostly solved problem.', 'start': 265.979, 'duration': 5.882}, {'end': 274.803, 'text': 'But no need to worry about definitions though.', 'start': 272.462, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 279.004, 'text': 'Look, we are not even close to 90.', 'start': 275.503, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 280.645, 'text': 'And it gets even worse.', 'start': 279.004, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 284.987, 'text': 'Look, this GDT score means the global distance test.', 'start': 281.185, 'duration': 3.802}, {'end': 291.629, 'text': 'This is a measure of similarity between the predicted and the real protein structure.', 'start': 285.487, 'duration': 6.142}, {'end': 294.29, 'text': 'And…wait a second.', 'start': 292.31, 'duration': 1.98}, {'end': 301.374, 'text': 'What? The results are not only not too good, but they appear to get worse over time.', 'start': 294.931, 'duration': 6.443}, {'end': 307.176, 'text': 'Is that true? What is going on here? 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The AI's victory over the world champion in Go by a score of 4-1 demonstrates its remarkable ability to handle complex and intuitive games, surpassing human intuition.", "DeepMind's AI's general learning algorithm can learn multiple games using one algorithm, distinguishing it from previous handcrafted techniques like Deep Blue for chess. DeepMind's AI's general learning algorithm can learn multiple games using a single algorithm, in contrast to previous handcrafted techniques, such as Deep Blue for chess, which required separate algorithms for different games.", 'The complexity of protein folding poses a significant challenge due to the vast search space and the absence of a perfect scoring function, making it exceedingly difficult to define the learning objectives. The complexity of protein folding, with its vast search space and lack of a perfect scoring function, presents a formidable challenge in defining learning objectives, contributing to its exceptional difficulty.']}, {'end': 307.176, 'start': 222.495, 'title': 'Protein folding: a challenge beyond games', 'summary': 'Discusses the immense challenge of protein folding, highlighting the complexity through the comparison with games like chess, go, and starcraft 2, and emphasizes the importance of the casp event, indicating the unresolved nature of protein folding as evidenced by the low gdt scores.', 'duration': 84.681, 'highlights': ["The CASP event is referred to as the 'Olympics of protein folding', emphasizing the significance and complexity of the protein folding challenge. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls CASP the 'Olympics of protein folding', highlighting its importance and complexity.", 'Protein folding is described as a mostly unsolved problem with a score of less than 90, indicating the immense challenge it presents. Protein folding is considered a mostly unsolved problem with a score of less than 90, highlighting its complexity.', 'The GDT score, a measure of similarity between predicted and real protein structure, is indicated to be low and possibly worsening over time, underscoring the difficulty in accurately predicting protein structures. The GDT score, a measure of similarity between predicted and real protein structure, is low and possibly worsening over time, indicating the challenge in accurately predicting protein structures.']}, {'end': 399.644, 'start': 307.837, 'title': "Ai's evolution: alphafold's remarkable progress", 'summary': 'Discusses the significant improvement in ai-based solution alphafold, with alphafold 2 being around 90 marks, approximately three times better than previous solutions, within just two years.', 'duration': 91.807, 'highlights': ['AlphaFold 2 achieves a remarkable result of around the 90 mark, signifying a substantial improvement in performance compared to previous methods.', 'The AI-based solution, AlphaFold 2, is considered to be approximately three times better than previous solutions, demonstrating a remarkable advancement in just two years.', 'The competition gets harder over time, with AlphaFold 2 surpassing its predecessor and previous methods, showcasing a notable improvement in AI technology.']}], 'duration': 342.7, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q56944.jpg', 'highlights': ['AlphaFold 2 achieves a remarkable result of around the 90 mark, signifying a substantial improvement in performance compared to previous methods.', 'The AI-based solution, AlphaFold 2, is considered to be approximately three times better than previous solutions, demonstrating a remarkable advancement in just two years.', "DeepMind's AI mastered the game of Go and defeated the world champion 4-1, showcasing its ability to tackle highly complex and intuitive games.", "The AI's victory over the world champion in Go by a score of 4-1 demonstrates its remarkable ability to handle complex and intuitive games, surpassing human intuition.", "DeepMind's AI's general learning algorithm can learn multiple games using a single algorithm, in contrast to previous handcrafted techniques, such as Deep Blue for chess, which required separate algorithms for different games.", 'The complexity of protein folding, with its vast search space and lack of a perfect scoring function, presents a formidable challenge in defining learning objectives, contributing to its exceptional difficulty.', "The CASP event is referred to as the 'Olympics of protein folding', emphasizing the significance and complexity of the protein folding challenge.", 'Protein folding is considered a mostly unsolved problem with a score of less than 90, highlighting its complexity.', 'The GDT score, a measure of similarity between predicted and real protein structure, is low and possibly worsening over time, indicating the challenge in accurately predicting protein structures.']}, {'end': 1059.674, 'segs': [{'end': 479.458, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 452.423, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 458.088, 'text': 'One, AlphaFold2 is an end-to-end network that can perform iterative refinement.', 'start': 452.423, 'duration': 5.665}, {'end': 459.549, 'text': 'What do these mean?', 'start': 458.768, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 471.019, 'text': 'What this means is that everything needed to solve the task is learned by the network and that it starts out from a rough initial guess and then it gradually improves it.', 'start': 460.089, 'duration': 10.93}, {'end': 475.837, 'text': 'You see this process here, and it truly is a sight to behold.', 'start': 471.539, 'duration': 4.298}, {'end': 479.458, 'text': 'Two, it uses an attention-based model.', 'start': 476.997, 'duration': 2.461}], 'summary': 'Alphafold2 is an end-to-end network that iteratively refines and uses an attention-based model.', 'duration': 27.035, 'max_score': 452.423, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q452423.jpg'}, {'end': 585.712, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 560.585, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 565.91, 'text': 'They are still quite new, just a few years old, and are already making breakthroughs.', 'start': 560.585, 'duration': 5.325}, {'end': 569.493, 'text': 'So why use them for protein folding?', 'start': 566.831, 'duration': 2.662}, {'end': 579.042, 'text': 'Well, things that are 200 amino acids apart in the text description can still be right next to each other in the 3D space.', 'start': 570.114, 'duration': 8.928}, {'end': 585.712, 'text': 'Yes, now we know that for that, we need attention networks, for instance, a transformer.', 'start': 579.847, 'duration': 5.865}], 'summary': 'New protein folding technology showing early success in breakthroughs.', 'duration': 25.127, 'max_score': 560.585, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q560585.jpg'}, {'end': 796.122, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 766.089, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 775.278, 'text': 'Well, after this step is done, the AI can be given a new input and will be able to create this 3D structure in about a minute.', 'start': 766.089, 'duration': 9.189}, {'end': 780.824, 'text': 'And we can then reuse this trained neural network for as long as we wish.', 'start': 776.239, 'duration': 4.585}, {'end': 786.254, 'text': 'Whew So, this is a lot of trouble to fold these proteins.', 'start': 782.011, 'duration': 4.243}, {'end': 796.122, 'text': "So, what is all this good for? The list of applications is very impressive, I'll give you just a small subset of them that I really liked.", 'start': 786.935, 'duration': 9.187}], 'summary': 'Ai can create 3d structure in about a minute and the trained neural network can be reused for various applications.', 'duration': 30.033, 'max_score': 766.089, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q766089.jpg'}, {'end': 918.789, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 867.296, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 875.323, 'text': 'Something like this costs a ton to develop and note that it is not easy, or maybe not even possible,', 'start': 867.296, 'duration': 8.027}, {'end': 879.267, 'text': 'to immediately make a product out of this and monetize it.', 'start': 875.323, 'duration': 3.944}, {'end': 883.062, 'text': 'This truly is a gift to humanity,', 'start': 879.941, 'duration': 3.121}, {'end': 890.966, 'text': 'and a project like this can only emerge from proper long-term thinking that focuses on what matters in the long term.', 'start': 883.062, 'duration': 7.904}, {'end': 894.487, 'text': 'Not just thinking about what is right now.', 'start': 891.706, 'duration': 2.781}, {'end': 899.911, 'text': 'Bravo! Now, of course, not even AlphaFold2 is perfect.', 'start': 895.288, 'duration': 4.623}, {'end': 909.06, 'text': "For instance, it's not always very confident about its own solutions, and it also performs poorly in antibody interactions.", 'start': 900.372, 'duration': 8.688}, {'end': 916.387, 'text': 'Both of these are subject to intense scrutiny, and follow-up papers are already appearing in these directions.', 'start': 909.681, 'duration': 6.706}, {'end': 918.789, 'text': 'Now, one last thing.', 'start': 917.288, 'duration': 1.501}], 'summary': 'Alphafold2 is a gift to humanity, with some limitations and ongoing improvements.', 'duration': 51.493, 'max_score': 867.296, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q867296.jpg'}, {'end': 1055.469, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1033.096, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1052.486, 'text': 'Make sure to use the link wnb.me slash paper intro or just click the link in the video description and try this 10-minute example of weights and biases today to experience the wonderful feeling of training a neural network and being in control of your experiments.', 'start': 1033.096, 'duration': 19.39}, {'end': 1055.469, 'text': "after you try it, you won't want to go back.", 'start': 1053.366, 'duration': 2.103}], 'summary': 'Experience the 10-minute example of weights and biases for training neural networks and controlling experiments.', 'duration': 22.373, 'max_score': 1033.096, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q1033096.jpg'}], 'start': 400.504, 'title': "Alphafold's impact on protein folding", 'summary': "Explores alphafold2's crucial elements and the use of attention-based models like transformers for protein folding, while also highlighting alphafold's breakthrough in protein folding, with the ability to train the ai in two weeks and produce 3d protein structures in about a minute, offering valuable contributions to drug development and understanding human biology.", 'chapters': [{'end': 585.712, 'start': 400.504, 'title': "Alphafold2: ai's impact on protein folding", 'summary': 'Explores the key elements of the alphafold2 ai system, emphasizing that every part is crucial, and the use of attention-based models like transformers for protein folding due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies in 3d space.', 'duration': 185.208, 'highlights': ['AlphaFold2 is an end-to-end network that can perform iterative refinement, learning everything needed to solve the task by starting from a rough initial guess and gradually improving it. AlphaFold2 uses an end-to-end network for iterative refinement, learning all necessary information and gradually improving the task.', "DeepMind's ablation study found that every part of the system mattered, with few exceptions, but none of the techniques are a silver bullet. DeepMind's ablation study revealed that every part of the system was crucial, with few exceptions, emphasizing the absence of a single 'silver bullet' technique.", 'The use of attention-based models like transformers is important for protein folding, as they are effective in capturing long-range dependencies in 3D space, which is crucial for tasks such as recognizing distant relationships between amino acids. The use of attention-based models like transformers is crucial for capturing long-range dependencies in 3D space, making them effective for tasks such as recognizing distant relationships between amino acids in protein folding.']}, {'end': 1059.674, 'start': 586.333, 'title': 'Alphafold: revolutionizing protein folding', 'summary': 'Discusses the breakthrough in protein folding achieved by alphafold, an end-to-end learning system developed by deepmind, with the ability to train the ai in just two weeks and produce 3d protein structures in about a minute, offering a gift to humanity by making its predictions public for developing new drugs and providing a tool for better understanding the human body and creating solutions for diseases and environmental issues.', 'duration': 473.341, 'highlights': ["AlphaFold can train the AI in as little as two weeks and produce 3D protein structures in about a minute. DeepMind's AlphaFold can rapidly train its AI and generate 3D protein structures in a remarkably short time, revolutionizing the process of protein folding.", "AlphaFold's predictions are publicly available, enabling the development of new drugs and solutions for diseases and environmental issues. DeepMind's AlphaFold has made its 3D protein structure predictions public, providing a valuable resource for developing new drugs, understanding the human body, and addressing environmental challenges.", "The project is a gift to humanity, reflecting proper long-term thinking and focusing on what matters in the long term. AlphaFold's contribution is regarded as a gift to humanity, stemming from long-term thinking and a focus on addressing critical issues for the benefit of society."]}], 'duration': 659.17, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/FYVf0bRgO5Q/pics/FYVf0bRgO5Q400504.jpg', 'highlights': ['AlphaFold2 uses an end-to-end network for iterative refinement, learning all necessary information and gradually improving the task.', 'The use of attention-based models like transformers is crucial for capturing long-range dependencies in 3D space, making them effective for tasks such as recognizing distant relationships between amino acids in protein folding.', 'AlphaFold can train the AI in as little as two weeks and produce 3D protein structures in about a minute.', "AlphaFold's predictions are publicly available, enabling the development of new drugs and solutions for diseases and environmental issues.", 'The project is a gift to humanity, reflecting proper long-term thinking and focusing on what matters in the long term.']}], 'highlights': ['AlphaFold achieved unprecedented accuracy in solving protein structure prediction, marking a historic breakthrough in bioinformatics.', 'AlphaFold 2 achieves a remarkable result of around the 90 mark, signifying a substantial improvement in performance compared to previous methods.', 'Understanding protein 3D structure is imperative for scientific and medical applications.', 'The AI-based solution, AlphaFold 2, is considered to be approximately three times better than previous solutions, demonstrating a remarkable advancement in just two years.', "DeepMind's AI mastered the game of Go and defeated the world champion 4-1, showcasing its ability to tackle highly complex and intuitive games.", 'AlphaFold can train the AI in as little as two weeks and produce 3D protein structures in about a minute.', "AlphaFold's predictions are publicly available, enabling the development of new drugs and solutions for diseases and environmental issues.", 'The project is a gift to humanity, reflecting proper long-term thinking and focusing on what matters in the long term.']}