AI Pores Over Old Scientific Papers, Makes Discoveries Overlooked By Humans

When AI isn't busy taking our jobs, it's making brand new scientific discoveries that our clunky human brains somehow overlooked. Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory trained an AI called Word2Vec on scientific papers to see if there was any "latent knowledge" that humans weren't able to grock on first pass. The study, published in Nature on July 3, reveals that the algorithm found predictions for potential thermoelectric materials which can convert heat into energy for various heating and cooling applications. The algorithm didn't know the definition of thermoelectric, though. It received no training in materials science.