Microsoft chief scientist Horvitz: AlphaFold's 200M predictions are forcing science to rethink credit and integrity
erichorvitz · x · 2026-10-26
Microsoft chief scientist Eric Horvitz shares his Age of the World podcast interview: scientists solved 180,000 protein structures over 60 years, while AlphaFold has predicted 200M+. He says science is changing so fast it's forcing a rethink of what integrity and credit even mean. Noted as recorded before recent mathematics results.
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