Using AlphaFold in the fight against plastic pollution - Google DeepMind

How can artificial intelligence help break down plastics in the oceans?
The Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the University of Portsmouth, led by John McGeehan, Rosie Graham, and their colleagues, is utilizing AlphaFold, an AI system developed by Google DeepMind, to develop a solution. The aim is a fully circular plastic economy, using enzymes to break plastic polymers down so they can be 100% recycled back to their initial state - or even upcycling degraded material back to the quality of virgin plastic.
The world produces around 400m tonnes of plastic waste each year. Much of it ends up in landfill; a significant portion is polluting the world’s oceans. Conventional plastic recycling only degrades the material - in fact, most plastic items never fully disappear.
Links and further reading:
Find more AlphaFold stories at dpmd.ai/3rESTU9
Access the AlphaFold database dpmd.ai/3Opx4kp
Find out more about the Centre for Enzyme Innovation www.port.ac.uk/research/resea...
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Making the job of a Ph.D. in minutes is an enormous breakthrough. This can make science go exponentially faster at building solutions for the upcoming challenges of the world

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A.I. :yo Ph.D. guy wanna merge?
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Ph.D. : When do we start?

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So beautiful! I love these type of videos Deepmind post. Keep them coming ❤️

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The only thing that's contagious is your enthusiasm

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Wow! That's amazing! Really great work, you people!

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Please, please, please let this work. We really need some hope these days. 💚

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Information,and inspiring vedio

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Super cool video! Pollution is a serious threat.
I'd really like to hear about DeepMind's approach to AI Alignment! It seems like more human + machine cooperative games could make a lot of headway towards this issue and it would be super neat to see videos on it!

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Whats the ring about?

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[@morapedimokhele4813]

But, in all honesty, I think you should be focussing the resources somewhere else (where they're needed the most) because plastics can be broken down using pyrolysis.
Which is a relatively easy process, you're just flexing and thus being useless (wasting resources).

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People tend to get scared when they don't understand something, I mean it's probably a good idea for the average human to not mess with nasty elements or a high power laser. LOL

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AI can be dangerous, those at Deepmind are one of the most aware of that.

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I think God gave a little smile with the hope that we can really help him make this world better. Oh Deepmind!! You are being very generous to this world. Thanks.

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Why does your supposed God need our help? Couldn't he just solve all our problems himself? If so, why doesn't he?

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But there is no god.

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