{"id":222735,"date":"2025-10-01T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/human-intuition-fuels-ai-driven-quantum-materials-discovery"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:20:52","slug":"human-intuition-fuels-ai-driven-quantum-materials-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/human-intuition-fuels-ai-driven-quantum-materials-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Human intuition fuels AI-driven quantum materials discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-intuition-fuels-ai-driven-quantum-materials-discovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many properties of the world\u2019s most advanced materials are beyond the reach of quantitative modeling. Understanding them also requires a human expert\u2019s reasoning and intuition, which can\u2019t be replicated by even the most powerful artificial intelligence, mixed with fortuitous accident, according to Eun-Ah Kim, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and collaborators have developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/machine-learning+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine-learning model<\/a> that encapsulates and quantifies the valuable intuition of human experts in the quest to discover new quantum materials. The model, Materials Expert-Artificial Intelligence (ME-AI), \u201cbottles\u201d this intuition into descriptors that predict the functional properties of a material. The team used the method to solve a quantum materials problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are charting a new paradigm where we transfer experts\u2019 knowledge, especially their intuition and insight, by letting an expert curate data and decide on the fundamental features of the model,\u201d said Kim, director of the Cornell-led National Science Foundation AI-Materials Institute. \u201cThen the machine learns from the data to think the way the experts think.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many properties of the world\u2019s most advanced materials are beyond the reach of quantitative modeling. Understanding them also requires a human expert\u2019s reasoning and intuition, which can\u2019t be replicated by even the most powerful artificial intelligence, mixed with fortuitous accident, according to Eun-Ah Kim, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of physics in the College of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222735","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}