And protein folding + Nobel Prize

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375

I won't comment much on this, but I'd say these articles are 2-3 years late and reduces the agency of the people, who in many cases moved to Gemini because they wanted to work on LLMs

And AlphaGo Zero .. probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.

> probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.

Isn't that Checkers right from the dawn of reinforcement learning?

I think that credit might go to IBM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon

Baffles me how this is not that well known