Season 6

This season explores AI for science, especially foundation models, and the opportunities and challenges in applying these new emerging tools to research.

Season 6

Jackson Burns: Avoiding Chemical Dead Ends

By Sarah Webb / May 14, 2025

Chemists and chemical engineers have modeled molecules for decades, but artificial intelligence and foundation models offer the prospect that researchers […]

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Season 6

Prasanna Balaprakash: Predicting Earth Systems and Harnessing Swarms for Computing

By Sarah Webb / April 16, 2025

In the second episode in our series on foundation models for science, we discuss Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s work and

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Season 6

Ian Foster: Exploring and Evaluating Foundation Models

By Sarah Webb / February 26, 2025

Large language models aren’t just powering chatbots like ChatGPT. This type of computational model is an example of a particular