Demis Hassabis distilled the lessons from AlphaGo and AlphaFold into a repeatable pattern for spotting scientific problems ready for AI. Three requirements: (1) a massive combinatorial search space too large for brute force, (2) a clear objective function you can hill-climb toward, and (3) enough real data or a simulator generating in-distribution synthetic data. Drug discovery fits the same template: 'There is a compound out there that would solve this disease if one could only find it.'
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