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They left out any mention of looking for high temperature super conductors ;-)
by phkahler 3y ago
They left out any mention of looking for high temperature super conductors ;-)
- haltist 3y agoThere are no obstructions to doing that. It is indeed possible to predict properties of superconductors with AI. It's just another regression problem with well defined inputs and outputs. Inputs are the materials and electromagnetic properties of the materials and the output is prediction of superconductivity. Surprising there is no YC company already working on this. Instead of yet another email company you'd think there would be at least one trying to accelerate R&D for material science and chemistry with AI.
- thatguysaguy 3y ago[dead]
- atoav 3y agoAfaik the fundamental mechanisms governing superconductivity are not known, which means any machine learning guess can only tell you which materials would be statistically likely candidates. At least the physicists I heard talking about that problem don't see any AI inventing a superconductor directly. Maybe it can help discovering the fundamental mechanisms tho.
- sanxiyn 3y agoHave a look at Predicting Transition Temperature of Superconductors with Graph Neural Networks posted in August. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11160 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11160