Chemists have used ChatGPT to design and conduct complex chemical reactions using a robotic laboratory set-up.
The system, called Coscientist, can design, code and carry out several reactions — making compounds including paracetamol and aspirin in the wet lab using its robot apparatus. The approach was described in Nature1 on 20 December.
“The moment I saw a non-organic intelligence be able to autonomously plan, design and execute a chemical reaction that was invented by humans, that was amazing,” says chemist Gabe Gomes at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who led the research. “It was a ‘holy crap’ moment.”
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