Benjamin Rosman, Wits

AI systems bring together information so they can learn and find solutions to problems. These tools can ingest vast amounts of data, which is why AI has become such an asset in the field of science. One of the most significant breakthroughs of AI in research, which earned a Nobel Prize, was AlphaFold, developed by Google Deep- Mind. This deep learning algorithm can predict the structure of proteins and can be used for drug design, and has saved many years of work in research labs.

For Professor Benjamin Rosman, from the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), this promise led to Wits’ recently launched Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute.