Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
Episode
54 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology & Behavior, Science & Discovery
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What It Covers
Liam Vettas and Doge Chubbuck discuss building Periodic Labs, which creates AI systems that conduct real physics experiments to discover new materials like superconductors.
Notable Moment
Vettas and Chubbuck first met eight years ago at Google Brain while attempting to flip a massive tire that required two people to move successfully.
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