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  • Chemistry
2 public events in this view, counted by event date.

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Dec 23Jan 24Feb 24Mar 24Apr 24May 24Chemistry

Significance

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Base impact

  • T1 · 1Useful / Limited
  • T2 · 3Notable / Significant
  • T3 · 10Major
  • T4 · 30Historic
  • T5 · 100Civilizational / Catastrophic

Base points before attribution, evidence, realization, durability, and credit share.

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Benefit versus harm counts

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Benefit8 May 2024

ChemCrow uses GPT-4 plus tools to execute organic-chemistry tasks

EPFL and collaborators published ChemCrow in Nature Machine Intelligence on 8 May 2024, an agent that used GPT-4 and 18 chemistry tools to plan syntheses including an insect repellent and organocatalysts.

ChemistryverifiedTier 2 Notable+0.16
Benefit20 Dec 2023

Coscientist uses GPT-4 to plan and run robotic chemistry experiments

Carnegie Mellon researchers showed a GPT-4-driven agent, Coscientist, that searched literature, wrote robot code, and optimized palladium-catalyzed couplings, published in Nature on 20 December 2023.

ChemistryverifiedTier 2 Notable+0.26