Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
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#3Seems like a pattern with these DeepMind papers...
Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#4A somewhat related question: let's assume that a super duper ChemGPT has discovered new, heretofore unknown, molecules.
What happens next?
Is there lots of work still to be done before the molecules are "built"? How would a lab determine the properties of truly novel compounds? How would you even figure out how to synthesize a new molecule?
Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#5I didn't see him explicitly suggest retraction in that thread, although he's certainly very upset at how bad the study is and thinks it should never have been published.
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#6The linked paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06734-w) in the quoted tweet appears to be from the Ceder Group at UC Berkeley, not DeepMind. Is there a different link I'm missing?
Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#7I didn't see him explicitly suggest retraction in that thread, although he's certainly very upset at how bad the study is and thinks it should never have been published.
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Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#8A somewhat related question: let's assume that a super duper ChemGPT has discovered new, heretofore unknown, molecules. What happens next? Is there lots of work still to be done before the molecules are "built"? How would a lab determine the properties of truly novel compounds? How would you even figure out how to synthesize a new molecule?
You should read the paper because they claim to have done it already with robots mixing powdered forms of these chemicals.
From the paper (but read it, there's even pictures):
> Researchers initialized the A-Lab by proposing 58 target materials, which were successfully realized at a rate of >2 new materials per day with minimal human intervention
Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#9I didn't see him explicitly suggest retraction in that thread, although he's certainly very upset at how bad the study is and thinks it should never have been published.
Re: Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper
#10A somewhat related question: let's assume that a super duper ChemGPT has discovered new, heretofore unknown, molecules. What happens next? Is there lots of work still to be done before the molecules are "built"? How would a lab determine the properties of truly novel compounds? How would you even figure out how to synthesize a new molecule?
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