AnimalGarden present “The Chemical Chinese Room” at the American Chemical Society meeting

Henry Rzepa and I have been awarded the Herman Skolnik award of the ACS and will be running a 1-day symposium next week. In my own talk (20 mins) I’ll be looking to the future under the theme “Can we build artificially intelligent chemists?” 3 minutes of this has been hijacked by #animalgarden who have adapted John Searle’s idea of the “Chinese Room” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room to chemistry.

Here’s Frog and Zog asking Magic Chemical Panda a chemical question and getting an answer.

Who is MCP? What does he look like?

All will be revealed next Tuesday.

Meanwhile here’s a question for anyone:

“What’s the biggest current obstacle to creating artificial intelligent chemistry?”

Please make suggestions. The answer may surprise you.

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2 Responses to AnimalGarden present “The Chemical Chinese Room” at the American Chemical Society meeting

  1. David Roberts says:

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess the answer is going to be text mining restrictions by publishers…

    • pm286 says:

      Well done. The key missing part is knowledge and its representation. We’ve made a lot of progress on the representation but cannot collect the knowledge and re-use it. Knowledge is self re-inforcing.

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