AI in Healthcare and Scientific Discovery
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Google DeepMind's AlphaFold is enabling breakthroughs in cancer vaccine research in Uganda by identifying protein targets with AI, while 3Blue1Brown highlights the theoretical limits of language compression, showing how AI is reshaping both scientific discovery and information processing.
Measuring the entropy of English
Seventy-five years after Claude Shannon estimated that English text could be compressed to about one bit per character with sufficient context, modern compression techniques are now achieving this theoretical limit through engineering intelligence rather than human intuition.
Understanding cancer at a genetic level with AI
Using AlphaFold and Alpha Genome, researchers in Uganda narrowed 15,000 potential breast cancer vaccine target sites to 15, demonstrating how AI democratizes science by enabling local, laptop-based research.