Jyunmi Hatcher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Segment two, everybody.
So we're going to talk about how AI-powered robot scientists are rewriting the rules of discovery.
Every major advance in human history has been tied to the discovery of a new material or molecule.
Now, oh, of course, this is the time that I totally close my file.
Give me a second while I find the story again.
That was completely planned.
April fools, everybody.
The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Silicon Age, each defined by someone figuring out what something was made of and how to make it better.
The medicines in your cabinet, the battery in your phone, the plastics in your car, all of them started with an idea that a scientist tested in the lab one experiment at a time.
The problem is the process is extraordinarily slow.