How Google DeepMind used AI to predict structure of unknown materials

Many of us remember the famous scene in Iron Man 2 movie where Tony Stark’s AI system JARVIS helped him create a new element. Google has achieved something similar in real life. Google DeepMind, the company’s AI arm has a new use case for artificial intelligence – predicting the structure of materials that are not yet discovered or known.

Google DeepMind has created a system, known as the A-Lab, that can predict the structure of materials, which later can be created in labs for use in improving real-world technologies such as batteries or solar cells.

The system can carry out the synthesis and analysis of the products — all without human intervention, the company said in a research paper published in journal Nature.