And downvotes. The article presents this as a magic box capable of novel work, and some distance down says it found the answers on Wikipedia. Those are different things, whether you're excited about LLMs or not.
Also their model converts the "wikipedia answer" into steps that they run on a robot, which hasn't been done before for this specific reaction.
What does it matter that it looked up the reactions on Wikipedia? They're building a "coscientist", not an AI-based Nobel prize winning researcher.
Well, quite. This is attempting to automate the boring, time-consuming and dangerous part of chemical research.
We should be applauding.
or a box whose content can be cleanly swapped out with future iterations which already demonstrate the potential for novel discovery:
https://thenextweb.com/news/deepminds-ai-finds-solution-to-d...
"Researchers claim it is the first time an LLM has made a novel scientific discovery"
LLM didn't make discovery on its own in that work, it played role in one step of unknown importance, other steps were lots of manual coding and lots of CPUs to brute force solution.