{"id":177336,"date":"2023-12-03T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brainstorming-nanomaterials-with-a-domain-specific-chatbot"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:25:23","slug":"brainstorming-nanomaterials-with-a-domain-specific-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brainstorming-nanomaterials-with-a-domain-specific-chatbot","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming nanomaterials with a domain-specific chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brainstorming-nanomaterials-with-a-domain-specific-chatbot3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A researcher has just finished writing a scientific paper. She knows her work could benefit from another perspective. Did she overlook something? Or perhaps there\u2019s an application of her research she hadn\u2019t thought of. A second set of eyes would be great, but even the friendliest of collaborators might not be able to spare the time to read all the required background publications to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Yager\u2014leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, he has developed a chatbot with knowledge in the kinds of science he\u2019s been engaged in.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid advances in AI and ML have given way to programs that can generate creative text and useful software code. These general-purpose chatbots have recently captured the public imagination. Existing chatbots\u2014based on large, diverse language models\u2014lack detailed knowledge of scientific sub-domains. By leveraging a document-retrieval method, Yager\u2019s bot is knowledgeable in areas of nanomaterial science that other bots are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher has just finished writing a scientific paper. She knows her work could benefit from another perspective. Did she overlook something? Or perhaps there\u2019s an application of her research she hadn\u2019t thought of. A second set of eyes would be great, but even the friendliest of collaborators might not be able to spare the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}