Episode 47: We Hold AI Science To A Standard Humans Never Meet
ChatGPT proposed adding an extra oxygen source to a reaction that already pulls oxygen from air. PhD chemists looked at it and said no, that's not how it's done, you'll spawn side reactions and make a mess. The team ran it anyway. Yield went from 16.6% to 25.2%.
Piotr Byrski, co-founder of Molecule.one, built his lab in 2022 with AI as the intended user, before most people had heard the term agentic AI. The number worth holding onto isn't the discovery. It's the volume behind it: roughly 10,000 reactions in three months for the published result, about 30,000 across all four proposals. A bench…
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