Some pushback on using machine learning to predict "new molecules to synthesize https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-of-new-materials-with-ai-human-researchers "I wouldn’t comb through more than 2 million new compositions as proposed by Google … I think the general methodology probably works quite well, but it needs to be a lot more focused around specific needs, so none of us have enough time in our lives to go through 2.2 million possibilities and decide how useful that might be." #chemistry
Is Google's AI Actually Discovering 'Millions of New Materials?'

"In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical."

404 Media