Material Science
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Gomez-Bombarelli: AI Must Solve Real Material Science Beyond Simulation
“But it was clear that we needed to bridge a gap and get this thing all the way out and make, do AI for actual material science and not just the computational version.”
Krause: ML engineers in science should specialize instead of switching fields
“Bring the specialization and lean into your expertise. Don't shy away from it. Don't try to become a material scientist. Be an MLE that works in material science.”
Midha: AI has reached superhuman capabilities in domain-specific tasks
“Within coding, within material science, within each of these domain distributions, we are seeing capabilities that are superhuman.”
Kulik: Machine-Learning-Ready Publishing Is Not Developed Across Materials Science
“Some research sub-fields are trying to do that, but it's not really developed across material science.”
Hsu: Near-term scientific research will rely on human-AI-robotics collaboration
“So what that might look like in the near term is collaboration between a scientist and a system that involves both an AI application and a robot and having that be a much more collaborative process in the near term In many different kinds of labs and many diff…”
Krishna: Robotics, 3D printing, and material science will lower home construction costs
“And so there are other things that I think will improve as we think about like the future, like the cost of building a home has got to come down. Right. And I think things like robotics three D printing, you know, advancements in material science will help wit…”
Gomez: Specialist AI models will emerge for drug creation and material sciences
“There will be specialist models that emerge to help in things like in pharma, right? The creation of new drugs in material sciences for advanced materials.”
Schroepfer: AI does not solve climate tech's manufacturing scale-up bottleneck
“AI for material science, great for discovering new materials. The manufacturing scale-up is usually the hard part. So great, I've got this new MOF. I've got to make a lot of it very cheaply. The AI doesn't really help me very much with that. Like, in theory, m…”
Feder: Industrial, defense, and materials tech are the sensible hardware bets
“Yeah, you know, industrial applications, or military applications, or material sciences, those seems like, those seem like the places where you can actually build a company more sensibly.”
Dave Morin predicts AI will drive breakthroughs in material and biological sciences
“We're probably going to make some pretty amazing breakthroughs in like material science, and maybe we can actually explore domains with incredibly large data sets that were really hard to make sense of, right? We're seeing glints of that right now with materia…”
Douvos: University deep tech works with small exits if ownership math is right
“The material sciences guys, you know, none of their companies will ever sell for more than two hundred million dollars, but when you can own 35% of the company for 750 K, and you got a twenty-five million dollar fund, the arithmetic works in your favor.”
Classical computers cannot simulate molecular systems more complex than two atoms
“We do not have the capability currently with our classical computers to simulate anything more complicated Than a two-body problem or a two-atom molecule, and we're really good at simulating hydrogen, so we can take that, put it into a computer, and understand…”
Cupta: Materials science breakthroughs take 20 to 30 years to commercialize
“It typically takes Decades, 20 to 30 years to go from a university idea of something into a full-scale commercialization because it's very, very challenging to be able to do material science research with PhD horsepower. It takes a very long time of doing that…”
Pande: Principles of traditional engineering disciplines carry over to biological systems
“I think mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, computer science, all these disciplines are pushing into biology, and so instead of steel, it's bone, or it's muscle, but the same principles actually carry over really nicely, and if yo…”