While the previous page covered everyday consumer AI, this page covers industry-level AI transformation — where AI is changing how entire sectors operate.
A: AlphaFold is DeepMind’s AI system that predicts the 3D structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences. It solved a 50-year-old challenge in biology. In 2022 it published predicted structures for over 200 million proteins — nearly every protein known to science. This accelerates drug discovery and disease research by years or decades.
Q: How is AI used in software development, and what are its limits?
A: AI assists with code generation (GitHub Copilot), bug detection, test writing, and code review. It dramatically speeds up boilerplate and repetitive tasks. Current limits: it hallucinates APIs that don’t exist, generates subtly buggy logic, and lacks full understanding of system architecture. It’s a powerful accelerator, not a replacement for engineering judgment.
