I don't think ChatGPT is going to be a chemist anytime soon...
Prof. Lee Cronin
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Prof. Lee Cronin
@leecronin
CEO & Founder, Chemify. Regius Professor, Scientist & Inventor. Fascinated & in a state of confusion & optimism. Trying to digitize chemistry & make alien life.
- It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.
- Nothing is more important than finding out how the universe works. Nothing.
- Chemputers are Turing complete & this is going to accelerate chemistry dramatically. Chem/acc
00:00 - My oddest moment being an academic recently was when a student told me he could not do a PhD with me because my IQ was ‘too low’. I asked them how they knew. They replied because ‘I see it in your eyes.’
- Artificial intelligence should be renamed applied maths.
- Today I made an anti cancer drug live on stage during a talk using my programming language & mini robot capable of #chemputation.
- Meet Heisenberg, the software agent that cloud controls chemputers to make molecules using our ChemputerAGI, safely, on demand, & reproducibly.
00:00 - Lets replace all references in manuscripts with DOIs & eliminate the tyranny of reference formatting.
- For the last decade people have been telling me the digitization of chemistry was impossible. They said it was too complicated, sensitive and expensive. Our chemical programming langauge runs on cheap hardware and can make any molecule or material. #chemputation
- A quick thread on our @Nature paper on Assembly Theory. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/10 Assembly theory provides a new framework to understand selection and evolution that integrates physics and biology. It redefines objects not as particles but by their formation histories.
00:00- LLMs cannot & will not ever be useful for scientific reasoning. LLMs will be useful in exposing non-scientific pseudo reasoning. Put another way probabilistic chains of thought cannot build & understand abstractions.
- Replying to @cameronI think Sam has principles you can’t even conceive off let alone implement.
