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This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own (www.nature.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Note: huge success

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Oh, look, it's your old friend, Deadly Neurotoxin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

i bet it doesnt instantly die

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Reboot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hello and again welcome to the Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Center. Due to a mandatory scheduled maintenance, the appropriate chamber for this testing sequence is currently unavailable. The Enrichment Center apologizes for the inconvenience and wishes you the best of luck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It simply continues, doing more!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Is this one step closer to food replicators?