Chemists teach GPT-4 how to do chemistry and control lab robots

The language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT can be used for automated chemistry, from chemical synthesis and drug discovery to designing, planning, and performing science experiments.

Large language models like GPT-4 have been trained on data from much of the Internet and appear to be proficient at addressing problems across a wide range of disciplines, but they can struggle with tasks that require more expert knowledge, such as chemistry.

“They don’t have that chemical knowledge and they’re not really good at representing…