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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
(www.newscientist.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This is one of the few cases where AI is actually a good idea... it takes a really long time to search for new materials with experiments
They used the AI to narrow 23 milliom candidate materials down to a few hundred, then focused on testing the ones out of that set that hadn’t been tested yet.
In terms of AI speeding up research this is enormous.