At a time of spiraling costs and deteriorating services, I see AI and synthetic biology as critical levers to help accelerate progress. They will make health care both higher-quality and more affordable. They will help us invent tools to bring about the transition to renewable energy and combat climate change at a time when politics has stalled,

Our team used deep generative neural networks to predict how the proteins might fold based on their DNA, training on a set of known proteins and extrapolating from there.

A better way to understand AI’s true potential is to look at how these five functions - sense, model, reason, act, learn - help it bridge the gap between structured systems that already are well coordinated and the vast unstructured processes and workflows that rely on tacit knowledge, which form the backbone of today’s economy.