AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize

I expect them to get the Nobel prize in Chemistry in about two-three weeks.

Congrats to DeepMind! But why did they give the prize to just two members of the alphafold team rather than everyone on the team?<p>By contrast, the breakthrough prize in physics was awarded to the entire event horizon telescope collaboration for their image of the supermassive black hole.<p>I would have assumed that the prize for alphafold would also been awarded to the whole team.

Is there a good summary of how AlphaFold has made a difference in the few years since it has been released. I was quite excited to hear their success in 2020, so I am curious to see where have we got to in 2 years and what is in the horizon.

When will we see the result of this breakthrough in our daily life?<p>The article mentions:<p>&gt; So far, the data have been harnessed to tackle problems ranging from antibiotic resistance to crop resilience.<p>Is any of them is about to be used in our daily life and solve a major problem?

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&gt; ... were recognized for creating the tool that has predicted the 3D structures of almost every known protein on the planet.<p>I wonder if relying on a tool that doesn&#x27;t 100% accurately represent reality could have a negative effect on future research

Does this solve protein folding?

What&#x27;s the next AlphaFold? I want to get in early

Quite funny to me that:<p>- for the first time, there isn&#x27;t mountains and mountains of trolling in an Alphafold thread and the comments are _very_ quiet<p>- the only reason why is a new account tried doing the trolling<p>- comment is instadead without any manual flagging<p>- but, people are afraid to post given the one try in 3 hours is dead

I wonder what people, in 100 years, would say about our era.<p>One might research, work hard and solve a problem that might change the course of development of a major field and win a recognition by $3M while someone which fills few numbers on a lottery ticket may earn 1-2 folds more.<p>I wish the system would give this kind of efforts and stories a bigger exposure, recognition and compensation.<p>Edit: The idea was about the prize amount, not those specific people. It wasn&#x27;t the best choice, but the idea was that even as a statement, prizes for scientific achievements should be higher so they will be an extreme to all people to recognize and strive for. I guess one could find a better analogy than what I had in mind.