Danny Diaz is an artificial-intelligence protein engineer...what a world, right? We'll talk about some new research that his team has produced which on first blush appears to be a method (developed using AI) to breakdown plastics, potentially pointing to a solution for one of the world's most intractable pollution problems. More about Danny's group: Research (utexas.edu) By the way, read the first paragraph on that page and be reminded how many people there are in the world who are much smarter than you are, or at least much smarter than I am.
Machine learning-aided engineering of hydrolases for PET depolymerization | Nature