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AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries (www.iflscience.com)
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AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries::Great job, AI! Please don't kill us.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It was thought that sodium ions and lithium ions couldn’t be used together in a single solid-state electrolyte system due to their chemical qualities, but the AI system indicated that such a material was possible. When the researchers tested the idea, it turned out to be true.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that is the exact opposite of an earlier story I read about a week ago or so. I'll see if I can find it again, but I doubt it.

    They were just narrowing down from a total list of 30 million combinations of different things before AI was applied. The magic was supposed to be about how fast it chewed through the data, not really about the compound itself.

    I could just be getting old and imagining shit. That is also possible.

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