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> In less than four minutes, Coscientist had designed an accurate procedure for producing the required reactions using chemicals provided by the team. When it s
by striking 3y ago
> In less than four minutes, Coscientist had designed an accurate procedure for producing the required reactions using chemicals provided by the team. When it sought to carry out its procedure in the physical world with robots, it made a mistake in the code it wrote to control a device that heats and shakes liquid samples. Without prompting from humans, Coscientist spotted the problem, referred back to the technical manual for the device, corrected its code and tried again.
What does it matter that it looked up the reactions on Wikipedia? They're building a "coscientist", not an AI-based Nobel prize winning researcher.
- Filligree 3y ago> What does it matter that it looked up the reactions on Wikipedia? They're building a "coscientist", not an AI-based Nobel prize winning researcher. Well, quite. This is attempting to automate the boring, time-consuming and dangerous part of chemical research. We should be applauding.
- gabegomes 3y agoYou got it! That’s part of what we did, but so much more… Coscientist democratizes access to fields that one is not a deep specialist in, allowing for people to merge different ideas with ease. Biologists can do cutting-edge chemistry, chemists can try the latest in materials science, and so on.