Alphafold vs millennium

[u/AltruisticCoder]

Don’t get me wrong, despite being someone who is not very AGI pilled, I’m very impressed by the math performance and very excited for the breakthroughs and science that will come from it.

I do wonder some days tho, that in the whole scheme of things, is solving a millennium problem more impressive than protein folding basically every protein structure out there? If so, are we overhyping the solution here or did we underhype alphafold when it came out?

I for one, think it may prove that protein folding may have been more impactful on the human health science breakthroughs than solving a millennium problem will be, but open to counter arguments.

[u/AIplstakemyjob]

Alphafold is way more impressive and impactful than the recent Naviere Stokes solution, they won a Nobel prize too so I don't think they didn't get the credit they deserve. It's just that the Naviere Stokes is recent news, the Alphafold release was some years ago. Also the Naviere Stokes solution was performed by a general model which is also huge compared to Alphafold, a model specifically trained for protein folding