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This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own

A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.
  1. Katharine Sanderson

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Chemists have used ChatGPT to design and conduct complex chemical reactions using a robotic laboratory set-up.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04073-4

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