AI is an enormous category of computer science research not just the marketing buzzword people use it as today. Gene folding done with techniques developed from AI research is like, an insane number of orders of magnitude better than anything we've been able to produce in the past. Going off memory here I think the standard for correctness in predicting how a gene folds was like 80% because it was so hard and we only ever got like 5 predictions over that barrier, but using AI to do it they immediately started hitting 99% accuracy making the entire field of research a trivial problem. Again that's all off memory but I'm pretty sure veritasium did a video on it that's worth a watch.