Accelerated chemical science with AI.

Journal: Digital discovery
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Abstract

In light of the pressing need for practical materials and molecular solutions to renewable energy and health problems, to name just two examples, one wonders how to accelerate research and development in the chemical sciences, so as to address the time it takes to bring materials from initial discovery to commercialization. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques, in particular, are having a transformative and accelerating impact on many if not most, technological domains. To shed light on these questions, the authors and participants gathered in person for the ASLLA Symposium on the theme of 'Accelerated Chemical Science with AI' at Gangneung, Republic of Korea. We present the findings, ideas, comments, and often contentious opinions expressed during four panel discussions related to the respective general topics: 'Data', 'New applications', 'Machine learning algorithms', and 'Education'. All discussions were recorded, transcribed into text using Open AI's Whisper, and summarized using LG AI Research's EXAONE LLM, followed by revision by all authors. For the broader benefit of current researchers, educators in higher education, and academic bodies such as associations, publishers, librarians, and companies, we provide chemistry-specific recommendations and summarize the resulting conclusions.

Authors

  • Seoin Back
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute of Emergent Materials, Sogang University Seoul Republic of Korea sback@sogang.ac.kr.
  • Alán Aspuru-Guzik
    Departments of Chemistry, Computer Science, University of Toronto St. George Campus Toronto ON Canada.
  • Michele Ceriotti
    Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling (COSMO), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland.
  • Ganna Gryn'ova
    Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH) 69118 Heidelberg Germany.
  • Bartosz Grzybowski
    Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis (CARS), Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Ulsan Republic of Korea.
  • Geun Ho Gu
    Department of Energy Engineering, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH) Naju 58330 Republic of Korea.
  • Jason Hein
    Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada.
  • Kedar Hippalgaonkar
    School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798 Singapore.
  • Rodrigo Hormázabal
    LG AI Research Seoul Republic of Korea.
  • Yousung Jung
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea.
  • Seonah Kim
    Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University 1301 Center Avenue Fort Collins CO 80523 USA.
  • Woo Youn Kim
    Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea.
  • Seyed Mohamad Moosavi
    Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 3E5 Canada.
  • Juhwan Noh
    Chemical Data-Driven Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology Daejeon 34114 Republic of Korea.
  • Changyoung Park
    LG AI Research Seoul Republic of Korea.
  • Joshua Schrier
    Department of Chemistry, Fordham University The Bronx NY 10458 USA.
  • Philippe Schwaller
    Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC) & National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Catalysis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland.
  • Koji Tsuda
    Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Kashiwa Chiba 277-8561 Japan.
  • Tejs Vegge
    Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark 301 Anker Engelunds vej, Kongens Lyngby Copenhagen 2800 Denmark.
  • O Anatole von Lilienfeld
    Acceleration Consortium and Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence Toronto ON M5S 1M1 Canada.
  • Aron Walsh
    Department of Materials, Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ UK.

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