Demis on designing DeepMind:
"When we set up DeepMind, I took inspiration for our research culture from many innovative organizations, including Bell Labs and the Apollo program, but also creative cultures like Pixar."
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/google-2023/unlocking-...
As for materials science, there's signs of life in graph nets https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi.... Meanwhile maybe AlphaFold indicates a precedent towards deep learning systems that advance chemistry. I don't claim these are revolutions, but extrapolating into the future, they might be seen as the catalysts. Maybe.