29 March 2018: AI in chemistry, and liquid droplets in living cells.

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🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This week, testing a neural network's chemistry skills, and what the physics of droplets is teaching us about the biology of cells.

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0:00.0	Nature.
0:02.0	In an experiment, I don't know yet.
0:06.0	Why is blight so far?
0:08.0	Like, it sounds so simple.
0:09.0	They had no idea.
0:11.0	But now the data's...
0:12.0	I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.
0:20.0	Nature. Nature. Welcome back to Only nature.
0:22.3	Nature.
0:25.9	Welcome back to the Nature podcast.
0:32.9	This week in the show, we've got chemists versus computers, as AI tackle some tough chemistry problems.
0:38.0	Plus phase separation, something that happens in lava lamps that could be massively important inside your cells as well.
0:39.8	This is the nature podcast for the 29th of March 2018.
0:43.3	I'm Benjamin Thompson.
0:44.4	And I'm Charmany Bundell.
0:49.8	Artificial intelligence, particularly involving neural networks, has been a hot topic in recent years.
0:55.5	AlphaGo, the computer that mastered the game of Go, quickly outshone human players
1:00.4	and was a prime example of how this kind of AI can learn and deduce strategies.
1:05.4	Now, this skill has been applied to the world of chemistry, as Charmoney is about to tell us.
1:09.6	Yes, thanks, Ben. I have been
1:11.2	finding out all about chemistry this week and some of the challenges that AI may be able to help
1:16.4	chemists with. Now, I have a vague idea about what it is that chemists do all day. I'm pretty sure
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