In the future, AI will liberate scientists from bottle and cans ｜ Read+

In the past, it was difficult for students to talk to academicians and become academicians. Now, a "academician popular science fever" has risen, and academicians often do popular science and are called another "strong base plan".

"Synthetic Future". (Ding Kuiling Huang Shaoyu Ge Hangming edited by Hubei Science and Technology Publishing House)

For example, this chemical popular science book, "Synthetic Future", was led by 6 academicians.

The book shakes, readers can see "Rainbow"

"Science popularization must not only make experts feel about it, but also make young people feel fun." Ding Kuiling, the editor -in -chief of this book, believes that the value of several papers and science popularization is incomparable. Ding Kuiling, an organic chemist, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and executive vice president of Shanghai Jiaotong University, is also enthusiastic about science in addition to heavy scientific research and management. All kinds of lectures are no longer fresh, he is still happy to appear. In various popular science programs and popular science videos, Ding Kuiling can often be seen.

Ding Kuiling plays the "Big Bowl Uncle" in "The Organic Sister of Handless Hand".

Last year, he was also transformed into a "big bowl of uncle" -the role in the chemical science popular movie "Finerous Hand of Hand", named after the large bowl of "dry rice". In the video, Ding Kuiling, "Uncle Bowl", sat in the cafeteria, while eating big bowls of rice, while talking to the young people on the opposite side. After this youthful movie was launched on Bilibili (station B), hundreds of thousands of on -demand and thousands of comments have been received in just a few days. "Knowledge points in the movie" also "harvested" a lot of reading.

Back to the book "Synthetic Future" also added fresh elements. There are 18 micro -videos in the book, led by 6 academicians and more than 20 experts. Each paragraph can be seen in less than 5 minutes. The book of this book is also very special. The cover is silver, and it seems to have a lot of colors. You can still see "Rainbow". The editor of the publisher introduces that this is a special paper "laser silver card paper".

"Give me a TARS, my hand can do more and more important things."

Over the past century, chemical synthesis has changed human food, food, housing and transportation in unprecedented ways, which has affected human life and death. For example, many of the clothes we are wearing are nylon materials. Open the clothes tags. There are polyester fibers, nylon, etc., which belong to nylon. Behind it, there are twists and turns research and development history.

Looking forward to the future, where will synthetic chemistry go? In fact, today, synthetic chemists believe that, under the cost of intelligence, manpower, and material resources, synthetic arbitrary molecules are no longer a short check. However, chemists can only cross the river by touching the stones and do a lot of experiments and conduct trial and error. However, even a higher level of organic chemists cannot remember and use all the documents in its research field. In other words, human brain memory and understanding are limited, which is a big problem.

Moreover, in order to understand the characteristics and application scope of an organic response, dozens or even hundreds of reactions need to be launched. This is indeed a commonplace for organic synthetic scientific researchers, but if it is a huge number of organic experiments, there is not such a large experiment. The room can be operated. It may take more than ten hours to justify the materials of each reaction, let alone the huge work in the follow -up.

But it doesn't matter, now there is AI (AI, full English in English Artificial Inteligence, Chinese famous artificial intelligence) to help. Today AI can quickly identify, read, calculate, analyze and feedback in massive data. People only need to design an organic synthetic calculator to store all the known organic chemical reactions and conversion methods into its brain. As long as the scientific researchers draw the molecules they want to synthesize, the organic synthetic calculator can give it immediately to give it to the organic synthetic calculator to give it immediately. A reasonable and feasible synthetic route. Or enter a plan reaction and immediately get a comprehensive assessment report that reacts.

In the science fiction masterpiece "Star Cross" released in 2014, the smart robot TARS left a deep impression on the audience. This kind of practical robot that can go to the world and is funny and humorous can't help but envy the chemical workers: If I have a TARS, my hands with a bottle can will be liberated. In fact, the British team has done it. The team invented an organic synthetic robot. From the beginning to the results of the results analysis of the one -stop service, it will even tell you that they predict the unknown reactions, and this robot can carry out 36 every day every day. Organic experiments, the accuracy of the forecast is as high as 80%.

The book describes that, just like Lego, each functional algorithm is a piece of Lego. What kind of artificial intelligence auxiliary operations are needed for synthetic chemists. As long as the algorithm is combined like pushing, you can realize the desired function. In other words, the future of chemistry depends on the development of artificial intelligence: "Liberating productivity, liberating people from heavy and meaningless repeated work, and then allowing people to invest limited time and energy into more important things. Only in this way will human society continue to develop forward. "

Tips in the history of chemistry: "Silicon 'to" Silicon' "

This book from the founding of human original life to the discovery of elements, to the historical trajectory of the element cycle (table) law, and through various high -quality products based on synthetic chemistry, it shows its indispensable in people's lives, defense, and scientific research. Sexuality, from time to time, I will tell some stories that rarely hear, such as "'Silicon'" to "Silicon '". The word "silicon" was not in ancient China. When the concept of elements came to China, scientists specially created the new words that each English element could correspond to specific Chinese characters. The structure of the word "silicon" follows the specific principles of the constructive element name: gas elements (such as oxygen, nitrogen); solid non -metallic elements next to stone characters (such as carbon, phosphorus, selenium, iodine, etc.); solid metal metal The element is beside the gold (such as sodium, aluminum, zinc, 钡, etc.); under room temperature conditions, the liquid element contains water characters (such as bromine, mercury). Therefore, the "silicon" character created by stone characters, let people know that it is a non -metal element.

Because silicon is the main component of the soil, scientists think of the "畦" of the "畦" of Cai Yan (read as xī, and now read qí). It is really beautiful, making people have to accept the high literary accomplishment of scientists at that time.

Everyone feels strange. The word "silicon" should be read as xī. Why do you read it now? This is another twists and turns. The word silicon (xī) was just created, and it was not spread in time. Only a small number of people knew that the correct pronunciation was xī. Most of the others wanted to read the silicon as Guī by the pronunciation of Gui and Gui.

Later, the scholars of the Chinese Chemistry Association discovered this problem. In order to correct this error, they created a new word "silicon (xī)", so that everyone knew that the word was read as xī. Later, some scholars proposed that there were too many words read as xī in chemistry. Silicon, tin, selenium, and hyperthyde were prone to confusion. At that time, the "other words" read the silicon as Guī.

It is precisely because of this episode in the history of science that today we have a single crystal silicon, silicate, silicone rubber, and organic silicon. However, "silicon" has not been completely abandoned. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the word "silicon" is continued. thing.

(Changjiang Daily reporter Qin Mengting)

【Edit: Jinxin】

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