Yes, altho it is of course possible that the protein folding search space has a low maximal speedup from software, and could turn out to be hardware bottlenecked.
I don’t see a reason why this should be the case. It might be that deep learning is not helpful for the problem but the idea that software can’t get better feels very unlikely.
The announcement that Deep Mind goes to protein folding is intersting. Solving protein folding would really matter.
Giving that we can print DNA, solving protein folding means that we can design new proteins to do what we want and have powerful nanotech.
We might also get algorithms that can predict binding between different proteins.
Yes, altho it is of course possible that the protein folding search space has a low maximal speedup from software, and could turn out to be hardware bottlenecked.
I don’t see a reason why this should be the case. It might be that deep learning is not helpful for the problem but the idea that software can’t get better feels very unlikely.