The AI built the periodic table in just a few hours
The periodic table of elements represents the arrangement of all chemical elements in nature according to their properties. However, it took scientists many years of science to arrange it in its current form. Researchers decided to experiment with an AI and teach it how to build the table from scratch, and the results were amazing. It only took the machine several hours to reach the current form of the table.
Humans have studied a lot to build the periodic table of elements
Chemical elements are easier to handle if you know information on their number of electrons, properties, or atomic numbers. For this, researchers decided to build the periodic table of elements, where they are all arranged according to these properties. However, the road to its current form has been long.
Everyone associates the periodic table of elements with the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev. In 1869, he was the one that proposed the arrangement of the elements in this formation. However, everything started a lot earlier. In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier put up a list of 33 of these elements and a thorough classification of their properties. Since then, chemists worldwide have been trying to draw a complete table of all the elements.
The AI could put up the periodic table of elements only in a few hours
As a result, researchers decided to have an AI do the same thing. They started by teaching the machine, called Atom2Vec, about chemical compounds and their properties. The AI already had knowledge of natural language processing, so it used these principles to draw a classification of the elements. In only a few hours, it could build the periodic table of elements from scratch.
The main purpose of the research was to see if an AI was capable of such a complex task. The results showed it had all the necessary skills, as it did in hours what humans have done in many years. Now, researchers hope they could use Atom2Vec to create new materials from these elements. The study on the subject was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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