Questão 58 - UNIFOR Medicina 2025/1

Google DeepMind boss wins Nobel for proteins breakthrough

 

British computer scientist Professor Demis Hassabis has won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “revolutionary” work on proteins, the building blocks of life.

Prof Hassabis, 48, co-founded the artificial intelligence (AI) company that became Google DeepMind.

Professor John Jumper, 39, who worked with Prof Hassabis on the breakthrough, shares the award along with US-based Professor David Baker, 60.

Proteins are the building blocks of life and are found in every cell in the human body.

Better understanding proteins has driven huge breakthroughs in medicine. It is used in solving antibiotic resistance and to image enzymes that can decompose plastics.

Prof Hassabis said it was the “honour of a lifetime” to receive the Nobel.

“I’ve dedicated my whole life to working on AI because I believe in its potential to change the world,” he said in a press conference on Wednesday.

He said the Nobel committee did not have his phone number. Instead they called his wife, but she ignored the call several times before realising it was a Swedish number and might be important.

He encouraged children to not only play computer games, but also make them, saying that his early gaming was the gateway to his experimentation with AI.

Speaking about being awarded the prize, Prof John Jumper said it felt “so unreal at this moment” but that “the prize represents the promise of computational biology”.

But the Nobel committee also struggled to reach him.

“I got a number from a Swedish number and I absolutely could not believe it. I was really hoping it wasn’t a delivery or something,” he said.

Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrm0p2mxvyo. Acesso em: 11 out. 2024

 

De acordo com o texto, analise as afirmativas a seguir

 

I. Professor Demis Hassabis ganhou o Prêmio Nobel de Química pela criação de um novo tipo de antibiótico.

II. Hassabis acredita que os jogos de computador o ajudaram a começar a experimentar com IA.

III. As descobertas de Hassabis foram aplicadas principalmente na indústria de jogos.

IV. As proteínas são essenciais para a vida porque estão presentes em todas as células do corpo humano.

 

É correto apenas o que se afirma em