AI will empower scientists rather than replace them, expert says

Google’s DeepMind AI team solved a long-running biological problem (Deepmind/PA)

Scientists are not about to lose their jobs to more sophisticated artificial intelligence – instead it will help them work even better, an expert in the field has said following a Google breakthrough.

Last week, the tech giant’s DeepMind AI specialists based in the UK made a leap forward in solving one of biology’s biggest challenges, the five-decade-old protein folding problem.