This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own

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nature.com

A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

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What does it do when the experiment goes wrong, explodes and fills the lab with toxic chemicals everywhere?

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Actual real life chemist here. This is not new. We’ve had “chemistry predictors” based on graph theory for decades. All that’s new is that this is AI based. So… potentially less accurate than the current tools.