{"id":2909,"date":"2025-09-04T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:37:20","slug":"chemistry-shenanigans-ais-fresh-twist-on-forecasting-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chemistry Shenanigans: AI&#8217;s Fresh Twist on Forecasting Chemical Reactions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/output1-8.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><i>&#8220;A new generative AI approach to predicting chemical reactions&#8221;<\/i><\/h6>\n<p>\n&#8220;Machines that are trained to recognize patterns and direct subsequent processes may one day be better-equipped than humans to predict the results of certain chemical reactions, thanks to a new end-to-end, machine learning technique developed by a team of researchers at MIT.&#8221; So says a report from our good friends over at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, let&#8217;s break this down. The eggheads at MIT have been toiling away in the trenches of AI (that&#8217;s &#8216;Artificial Intelligence&#8217; for those of us living in the real world), and they&#8217;ve come up with a new system that can anticipate the outcome of chemical reactions. Apparently, it&#8217;s better than the human brain at making such predictions. Talk about having an extra-special crystal ball!<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely marvelous, isn&#8217;t it? Not only are we being outsmarted by our smartphones on a daily basis, now machines are literally predicting the future. Too bad they can&#8217;t predict winning lottery numbers or the next big stock market boom. Still, we&#8217;re not here to complain, just to appreciate the wonders of modern science.<\/p>\n<p>This new machine learning technique, or as they call it the &#8220;generative model&#8221;, operates on algorithms that can learn from examples without being specifically programmed to perform tasks. It&#8217;s trained an AI to forecast reactions in organic chemistry. Meanwhile, the average person is still figuring out how to program a digital alarm clock before bed.<\/p>\n<p>The praiseworthy MIT team tested their model&#8217;s predictive powers against real humans. Robots vs. chemists, people, that&#8217;s what it came down to. The machine demonstrated a clear edge in forecasting the \u2018reactivity\u2019 of molecules towards certain chemical reactions.  Of course it did! It has, after all, been training on a dataset of millions upon millions of reactions. <\/p>\n<p>However, and there&#8217;s always a however, their abilities are not simply due to data processing capacity. This AI model works because it can emulate the decision-making process of a human chemist. Yep, they&#8217;ve managed to teach it to think like us. <\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s just hope when AI takes over the world, they remember us fondly. Until then, here\u2019s to welcoming our machine overlords and the new future of predicting chemical reactions!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2025\/generative-ai-approach-to-predicting-chemical-reactions-0903\">Read the original article here: https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2025\/generative-ai-approach-to-predicting-chemical-reactions-0903<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Suddenly our smartphones aren\u2019t just outsmarting us\u2014they&#8217;re predicting the future. Too bad our machine overlords can&#8217;t forecast winning lottery numbers or the next stock market boom!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-3"],"acf":[],"_wp_page_template":null,"_edit_lock":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}