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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by janalsncm on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:07PM (#50448565)
Hard not to draw parallels with Deepmind’s GNoME project which found millions of new “materials” most of which turned out to already exist or be garbage basically.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11044265/

The common thread is asking humans to do the verification work, which is the hard part.

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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by pixl97 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:19PM (#50449060)
>most of which turned out to already exist

And if you came up with a model that discovered them without previous knowledge of them that's a pretty amazing tool. Huge numbers of materials are sat on by companies and little to nothing is published on them.

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