Powerful Protein Folding Algorithm AlphaFold Foiled by Singletons

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence program in the news for its impressive breakthroughs at predicting a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. Philosopher of Biology Paul Nelson walks listeners through the importance of this “amazing breakthrough,” as he describes it in a recent Evolution News article; but don’t uncork the champagne bottles just yet. The reason, according to Nelson, is that while proteins, protein sequences, and protein folding promise to reveal much that is still mysterious in molecular biology, we now know that biological information involves far more than just an organism’s proteome—that is, far more than the full suite of proteins expressed by an organism. Nelson uses analogies to manmade machines and cognates Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Has artificial intelligence finally solved one of the longstanding mysteries in biology?
0:17.0	A news article in the prestigious journal Nature began with the headline,
0:21.0	It will change everything.
0:22.0	Deep Minds AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures.
0:26.0	The author goes on to say,
0:28.0	an artificial intelligence network developed by Google AI Offshoot Deep Mind
0:32.0	has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology's grandest
0:35.4	challenges, determining a protein's 3D shape from its amino acid sequence.
0:40.7	A scientist at the University of Maryland added,
0:43.0	this is a big deal.
0:45.0	In some sense, the problem is solved.
0:47.0	Hello, I'm Eric Anderson, and on today's ID the future,
0:50.0	I'm joined by Dr. Paul Nelson to discuss this noteworthy advance in machine learning's impact on biology.
0:55.8	We'll consider what Alpha Fold has contributed to our understanding of protein folding and what has and what hasn't been solved.
1:03.0	Nelson is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute,
1:06.0	an adjunct professor in a Master of Arts Program in Science and Religion at Bio University.
1:11.0	He is one of the early principal figures in the modern intelligent design debate and a well-known speaker and author on issues relating to evolution and intelligent design.
1:20.0	He holds a bachelor's in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh,
1:23.4	and a PhD in the philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory
1:26.6	from the University of Chicago.
1:28.4	Welcome, Paul.
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