{"id":177420,"date":"2023-12-05T01:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ai-meets-materials-science-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-automated-discovery"},"modified":"2023-12-05T01:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:23:24","slug":"ai-meets-materials-science-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-automated-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ai-meets-materials-science-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-automated-discovery","title":{"rendered":"AI meets materials science: the promise and pitfalls of automated discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-meets-materials-science-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-automated-discovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc4XmgDYjIsCfJwjCkYaWEumoDJB13uSrLhraw9mB24U7jyxg\/viewform\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06734-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a> in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> describing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06734-w\">\u201cautonomous laboratory\u201d or \u201cA-Lab\u201d<\/a> that aimed to use artificial intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/category\/ai\/\">AI<\/a>) and robotics to accelerate the discovery and synthesis of new materials.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed a \u201cself-driving lab,\u201d the A-Lab presented an <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/google-deepminds-materials-ai-has-already-discovered-2-2-million-new-crystals\/\">ambitious vision<\/a> of what an AI-powered system could achieve in scientific research when equipped with the latest techniques in computational modeling, machine learning (ML), automation and natural language processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Last week, a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a highly anticipated paper in the journal Nature describing an \u201cautonomous laboratory\u201d or \u201cA-Lab\u201d that aimed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,224,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-science","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177420","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}