Kara Santamaria

And that is what they're talking about.

And I think that's an important...

Because sometimes when we talk about studies on this show, what we're really talking about are studies where things are modeled or simulated, right?

That would be a perfectly cromulent description of what an LLM could do, is they could simulate a bunch of different biological experiments.

But no, in this case, they actually built a robotic laboratory that was all accessible through the cloud.

Does that make sense?

And there's pictures.

And I remember actually way back when I was in graduate school the first time, so that would have been 2007 is when I got my master's in the neurobiolab.

We had a robot that looked somewhat similar.

We were doing a lot of electrophysics experiments.

There was a lot of chemistry involved.

And we had a little robotic arm that could pipette, that could lift up tubes, move them to other places, put them on the belly dancer to mix them, put them in centrifuges, and put little pH test strips and things like that in there.

This is very similar.

You see a robotic arm, but here it's controlled remotely.

And the difference is it's not just people putting in the inputs.

The large language model is actually learning and...

developing the experimentation as it goes.

So what kinds of experiments do you think that this would be like really helpful for?

We've mentioned it a million times on the show.

Yeah, right.