SoulGuardian55 OP t1_iy4xgqn wrote
"Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of predicting the structure and properties of more than 31 million materials that do not yet exist.
The AI tool, named M3GNet, could lead to the discovery of new materials with exceptional properties, according to the team from the University of California San Diego who created it.
M3GNet was able to populate a vast database of yet-to-be-synthesized materials instantaneously, which the engineers are already using in their hunt for more energy-dense electrodes for lithium-ion batteries used in everything from smartphones to electric cars.
The matterverse.ai database and the M3GNet algorithm could potentially expand the exploration space for materials by orders of magnitude.
UC San Diego nanoengineering professor Shyue Ping Ong described M3GNet as “an AlphaFold for materials”, referring to the breakthrough AI algorithm built by Google’s DeepMind that can predict protein structures.
“Similar to proteins, we need to know the structure of a material to predict its properties,” said Professor Ong.
“We truly believe that the M3GNet architecture is a transformative tool that can greatly expand our ability to explore new material chemistries and structures.”"
camdoodlebop t1_iy6xcb7 wrote
can this algorithm be applied to anything? could there be 31 million new ways to cook chicken out there waiting to be discovered?
alkey t1_iy83zt1 wrote
Well, yeah.
TheWorldofGood t1_iy76gzd wrote
Either normal people are 100 years behind big tech companies or 1000 years behind. Either way we are fucked
xeneks t1_iy7q3oq wrote
Big tech companies are people. People make companies. People keep them alive.
The company is nothing without people. So it’s not that people are years behind companies or that companies are years ahead, it’s simply that any individual you look at will usually seem insignificant, compared to a company.
Yet the companies are made of lots of insignificant people. That makes all of them significant, provided you don’t fall in the habit of assuming they are there to be superior to anyone. If you’re looking for problems you will often find them. Occasionally you need to let the companies sit a while to reorganise themselves a bit around changing priorities. Sometimes the strategies change.
An example for me is clothes washing. I leaned about micro plastics. Since then my strategies have changed. I learned about plant based eating. Since then, strategies changed.
The strategies aren’t so special. More of a ‘set of directions and principles to try to apply’.
HolisticHolograms t1_iy7x46m wrote
That’s a lot of words. The point is, people with greater access to this value will wield it over others.
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