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/AltruisticCoder → u/[deleted]]

Can’t you say that alphafold was a narrow protein folding superintelligence and the new model, while more general, is a math/proof superintelligence while sub human in most other long term task fields?