A former game developer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Demis Hassabis, once of Lionhead, received the prestigious award alongside Professor John Jumper and Professor David Baker.
Hassabis is co-founder of DeepMind, which focuses on developments in the field of AI. Together, the scientists created the AlphaFold program, which can predict the structure of proteins. This is one of the most important goals in bioinformatics and theoretical chemistry, and the findings will have applications in medicine.
Professor Baker will receive half of the Nobel Prize for the computational design of proteins, while Professors Hassabis and Jumper will share the other half for predicting the structure of proteins. In total, scientists will receive 11 million Swedish kronor (103 million rubles).
Since its breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people in 190 countries. Researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and imagine enzymes that can break down plastic.
Without proteins, life could not exist. The fact that we can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins will bring humanity the greatest benefit.
Demis Hassabis worked at Lionhead, where he created artificial intelligence Black and white. Hassabis later left the team and founded Elixir Studios, where he released Republic: the revolution and Evil genius.
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Source: VG Times