This week, This Week in Latent Space explored why materials discovery hasn't yet produced an "AlphaFold moment" despite AI's breakthroughs in protein folding. In conversation with materials scientist Heather Kulik, the episode examined the fundamental differences between predicting protein structures and discovering novel materials—a distinction that reshapes how we should think about AI's role in the physical sciences.
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