Demis Hassabis distilled the lessons from AlphaGo and AlphaFold into a repeatable pattern for spotting breakthrough candidates. The recipe: a massive combinatorial search space where brute force fails, a clear objective function you can hill-climb against, and 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 a winning Go move, a protein fold, or a drug compound that would cure a disease without side effects.
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