The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Demis Hassabis, John M. Jumper, and David Baker for their contributions to protein structure prediction through the AI system AlphaFold.
AlphaFold, just 4 years old, is one of the youngest innovations to receive a Nobel Prize.
AlphaFold predicts the 3D structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences and has been widely used by researchers worldwide.
Jürgen Schmidhuber, director of the AI Initiative at KAUST, raised allegations of plagiarism against the Nobel laureates Hinton and Hopfield.