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The future of chemistry is language

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Large language models such as GPT-4 have been approaching human-level ability across many expert domains. GPT-4 can accomplish complex tasks in chemistry purely from English instructions, which may transform the future of chemistry.

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Fig. 1: A question answered by a LLM augmented with documents to overcome hallucinations.

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White, A.D. The future of chemistry is language. Nat Rev Chem 7, 457–458 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-023-00502-0

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