Our Distinguished Scientist John Jumper dropped out of his first PhD, but it led him to AI and biology – and a new doctorate along the way. 🧪
He shares his journey from helping develop #
AlphaFold# and being awarded the
@NobelPrize to accelerating science with AI – all on our podcast ↓
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
02:06 The Nobel Prize call
06:35 The "Grand Challenge" breakthrough
09:42 Reactions from the community
12:48 Unexpected use cases
16:04 AlphaFold 3 and diffusion models
26:54 Roman aqueducts
33:46 Designing new proteins
40:40 Does AI think?
46:51 Hannah's outro