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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is one of the few cases where AI is actually a good idea... it takes a really long time to search for new materials with experiments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They used the AI to narrow 23 milliom candidate materials down to a few hundred, then focused on testing the ones out of that set that hadn’t been tested yet.

In terms of AI speeding up research this is enormous.