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AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries (www.iflscience.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries::Great job, AI! Please don't kill us.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think I had read somewhere that it was a mix of sodium and lithium that we already knew about. This story is different every time I read it, so who knows?

With Microsoft's shitty AI in Windows and on LinkedIn, I guess they just are forcing a win here. Dunno.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was thought that sodium ions and lithium ions couldn’t be used together in a single solid-state electrolyte system due to their chemical qualities, but the AI system indicated that such a material was possible. When the researchers tested the idea, it turned out to be true.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that is the exact opposite of an earlier story I read about a week ago or so. I'll see if I can find it again, but I doubt it.

They were just narrowing down from a total list of 30 million combinations of different things before AI was applied. The magic was supposed to be about how fast it chewed through the data, not really about the compound itself.

I could just be getting old and imagining shit. That is also possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It’s perfectly reasonable that today’s ai can give you more options for searching through a huge problem space. It does appear to be a useful tool for some situations