Hassabis distilled the recipe behind AlphaGo and AlphaFold into three conditions. First, the problem must be a massive combinatorial search space where brute force fails. Second, there must be a clear objective function you can hill-climb toward (minimize free energy, win the game). Third, you need enough real data or a simulator that can generate in-distribution synthetic data. When all three hold, today's methods can find the needle in the haystack — whether that's the perfect Go move or the right drug compound.
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