June 26, 2024
Fluid Intelligence: Simulating Solutions with Tim Duignan
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player AnalysisAbout this episode
Explore the fusion of AI and computational chemistry with University of Queensland's researcher, Tim Duignan. Learn about transforming our understanding of electrolytes, the art of simulating physical processes using neural networks, and the potential of AI in scientific breakthroughs. Discover Tim's journey creating AI models for complex system predictions and join the discussion on advancing AI's role in future scientific discoveries. Apply to join over 400 founders and execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Byrne Hobart, the writer of The Diff, is revered in Silicon Valley. You can get an hour with him each week. See for yourself how his thinking can upgrade yours. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rANlV54GCARLgMOtpkzKt Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riff-with-byrne-hobart-and-erik-torenberg/id1716646486 SPONSORS: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/ Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:02:47) Introduction (00:04:09) Why electrolyte solutions are important (00:06:53) What properties are we trying to predict with electrolyte solutions? (00:09:33) Battery fires (00:13:38) Molecular dynamics (00:16:40) Time step (00:18:51) Scaling (00:23:09) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave (00:25:17) Decoherence (00:27:23) Neural Network Potentials (00:31:04) How big are the models? (00:35:46) What architecture is used? (00:38:12) Equivariance (Part 1) (00:42:29) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad (00:44:15) Equivariance (Part 2) (00:44:16) AlphaFold3 (00:46:52) Zero-shot latent space communication (00:48:21) What is coarse graining? (00:54:31) How to know if there is no crystallization (00:56:53) What is the role of water in the simulation? (01:01:25) Crystallization (01:05:26) Matching surfaces (01:09:32) Self-ionization of water (01:13:22) Active learning (01:16:41) Temperature (01:19:20) Ice and water (01:21:12) Scaling up the model (01:25:21) Big tech singularity (01:27:54) China is not far behind (01:29:15) Safety concerns (01:31:16) KANs (01:34:36) The future of scientific progress (01:39:28) The art of discovery (01:43:02) One model to rule them all (01:47:46) AGI, its risks and benefits (01:50:21) Power vs. Generality (01:53:01) Generality for Utility (01:53:40) Outro