{"id":78066,"date":"2018-04-27T02:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-ai-is-helping-us-discover-materials-faster-than-ever"},"modified":"2018-04-27T02:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:22:32","slug":"how-ai-is-helping-us-discover-materials-faster-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-ai-is-helping-us-discover-materials-faster-than-ever","title":{"rendered":"How AI is helping us discover materials faster than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ai-is-helping-us-discover-materials-faster-than-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another problem is that we still don\u2019t have enough data about every compound, according to Wolverton, and a lack of data means algorithms aren\u2019t very smart. That said, he and Mehta are now interested in using their method on other types of materials beside metallic glass. And they hope that one day, you won\u2019t need a human to do experiments at all, it\u2019ll just be AI and robots. \u201cWe can create really a completely autonomous system,\u201d Wolverton says, \u201cwithout any human being involved.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For hundreds of years, new materials were discovered through trial and error, or luck and serendipity. Now, scientists are using artificial intelligence to speed up the process.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/2018\/4\/25\/17275270\/artificial-intelligence-materials-science-computation\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/2018\/4\/25\/17275270\/art...omputation<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another problem is that we still don\u2019t have enough data about every compound, according to Wolverton, and a lack of data means algorithms aren\u2019t very smart. That said, he and Mehta are now interested in using their method on other types of materials beside metallic glass. And they hope that one day, you won\u2019t need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78066","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}