One of the more famous subsidiaries of Google is its artificial intelligence unit, Deepmind. This London-based company took the world of AI research by storm in 2013 when it built a machine that learnt to play conventional video games, such as Pong and Breakout, and then quickly achieved superhuman performance.
That heralded a series of impressive advances. Chief among these was the AlphaGo machine that reached superhuman levels at the ancient Chinese game of Go. More recently, its AlphaFold machine outperformed all other approaches in tackling the long-standing problem of protein folding.
So an interesting question is what problem the company is turning to next.
