SCOUT· 36%31m·2026-10-10·TechnologyWhy AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology. In this special panel moderated by Brandon Anderson, they explore why AlphaFold’s breakthrough was only…
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“What strikes me most is the Bitter Lesson for biology: scaling alone won't solve the cell. The real question is: do we need new inductive biases that mirror biological organization? Can we learn them from data?”
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