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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

paradigm shift in chemical research, robotic AI-chemist cloud facility, artificial intelligence, automated experiments, human-computer collaboration

Document Type

Vigorously Promote Scientific Research Paradigm Transform

Abstract

At present, chemical science is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges due to the technological changes brought by artificial intelligence. In order to promote the paradigm shift in chemical research, this study proposes the construction plan of the robotic AI-chemist cloud facility. This system realizes a new paradigm of scientific research by collecting multi-channel data to build a database, developing large scientific models enhanced by chemical knowledge, constructing clusters of robotic facilities, and building an intelligent management decision system, which will dramatically improve the efficiency of scientific research and solve scientific problems in terminal applications. This infrastructure is expected to change the paradigm of research and lead to major scientific breakthroughs in chemistry.

First page

41

Last Page

49

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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