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DeepMind’s AI has found more new materials in a year than scientists have in centuries (thenextweb.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do they mean "found"? New formulas for materials? Does it have a recipe for making them? Does it know what properties they have?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Linguists successfully make a list of every possible combination of letters up to 30 letters long! Research continues into the meaning of these new "words"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, it sounds like these haven't actually been tested, and many would not be stable, so this is typical popsci overhyping something, and leaving out all the "but"s.