MIT Technology Review October 15, 2024
AI’s usefulness for scientific discovery will be stunted without high-quality data.
David Baker is sleep-deprived but happy. He’s just won the Nobel prize, after all.
The call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences woke him in the middle of the night. Or rather, his wife did. She answered the phone at their home in Washington, D.C. and screamed that he’d won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The prize is the ultimate recognition of his work as a biochemist at the University of Washington.
“I woke up at two [a.m.] and basically didn’t sleep through the whole day, which was all parties and stuff,” he told me the day after the announcement. “I’m looking forward to getting back to...
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