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Key Insights<\/p>\n
A new paper details a large amount of very similar entries both within a crystallographic database produced by Google DeepMind\u2019s GNoME and between GNoME\u2019s database and other repositories.<\/p>\n
The paper follows up on and furthers previous evidence suggesting that GNoME\u2019s artificial intelligence\u2013enabled predictions of the structures of materials lack novelty and uniqueness.<\/p>\n
Researchers suggest that determining the novelty of materials that have been hypothesized by AI or produced physically requires careful analysis and vetting to further genuine materials discovery and avoid repeat entries in databases.<\/p>\n
Outside researchers are bringing up more questions about a 2023 paper from researchers at Google DeepMind. The outside researchers say the previous study\u2019s database of artificial intelligence\u2013generated crystal structures is littered with duplicates of known and hypothesized crystal structures found in other databases.<\/p>\n
That previous paper<\/a>, published in the high-profile journal Nature, and its authors\u2019 commentary<\/a>, released at the same time, included big claims. Specifically, the team claimed that their AI tool\u2014dubbed graph networks for materials exploration (GNoME)\u2014had predicted more than 380,000 previously unknown stable compounds. Those compounds, they suggested, may yield promising materials for use in electronic devices and batteries. The team\u2019s commentary claimed that their findings were equivalent to \u201cnearly 800 years\u2019 worth of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Key Insights A new paper details a large amount of very similar entries both within a crystallographic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20480,309718,3105,96596,19518,309720,309719,367,111,139,69,204378,147],"class_list":["post-631847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-big-data","tag-crystallography","tag-data","tag-database","tag-deepmind","tag-duplications","tag-gnome","tag-google","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-research-integrity","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}