AI for Science Really Means Engineering for Science

Steve Crossan&rsquo;s article Engineering for Science asks: &ldquo;Why did AlphaFold happen at DeepMind rather than (for example) the Broad Institute ? It wasn’t data. Everyone had access to exactly the same data. It wasn’t compute. The compute budget for AlphaFold1 was well within the budget of an academic project. The real reason was that we treated it as an engineering problem as much as a…