The cloud-based Hub prepares companies\u2019 proprietary data for AI ingestion. It can also combine company data with CAS reference data to enhance model accuracy. Essentially, CAS applies some of its own information-structuring tools to customer data, \u201ccombining our decades of curation expertise with secure infrastructure that accelerates discovery and enables confident AI adoption,\u201d CAS president Manuel Guzman said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cContent management and data management are something we\u2019ve been doing for a very long time. You could argue it\u2019s been 117 years from the very beginning of doing this,\u201d says Bryan Harkleroad, director of solution development at CAS.<\/p>\n And humans are still involved in the curation process, Sexton assures. \u201cWe have always found that it is the scientists, like . . . readers of [Chemical & Engineering] News, we are all scientists, we understand our science the best,\u201d she says. \u201cSo as our models digitize information, there\u2019s always that human scientist in the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n While the Hub is intended to speed innovation, it may have additional effects. One of its use cases is to be able to train AI models to do chemistry, says Harkleroad, which may transform human jobs<\/a>. The platform is also intended to reduce AI hallucinations, but scientists would still need to confirm the accuracy of any output<\/a>. And even though AI tools can reduce inefficiencies in some chemical processes, the technology makes hefty demands of energy and water resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n When asked what excites him about the new Hub, Harkleroad recalled the frustrations of being unable to find an experiment he knew had been run when he worked as a chemist for a pharmaceutical company. \u201cI think being able to standardize companies\u2019 data, so they get the value that they have put into it. The amount of money that\u2019s spent in this area, just the idea of them not being able to utilize it is somewhat criminal,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n “And I think that\u2019s what people love about being a scientist is that ability to create and to solve and to think. And that\u2019s what, ultimately, I hope we\u2019re able to enable.”<\/p>\n Jennifer Sexton, director of custom services, CAS<\/p>\n
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