New Tool Makes Generative AI Models More Likely to Create Breakthrough Materials
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MIT researchers have developed a new tool that enhances generative AI models to create breakthrough materials, with the potential to accelerate materials discovery.
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A new tool called SCIGEN allows researchers to implement design rules that AI models must follow when generating new materials.
With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.
QUANTUM COMPUTING! Fuck me. whens that going to happen. Like never.
Im still waiting for a quantum laptop that can do the first 1000 primes. I will even take it down the pub to show it off.
Design rules sound like???
Having a degree in prompting, and making sure you keep prompting, until you get what you are looking for, as near you can and weave in some Quantum.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious............