DUBAI: Since its rise, artificial intelligence has brought with it a promise of human and scientific progression beyond most people’s imaginations.
However, the spread of AI slop, fakes and proliferation of seemingly nefarious and useless applications have caused many to wonder whether the technology can really live up to its promise.
Scientists and academics gathered in Dubai on Sunday for the opening of the World Laureates Summit argued that the technology does, in fact, help them work faster, spot patterns and test ideas that would otherwise take years or decades.
“Can AI help us in speeding up discovery? Yes. Can it simplify the tasks and eliminate a lot of the trial and error that we chemists use to crystallize things. Yes. Will it get better? Yes,” Palestinian-Saudi Prof. Omar M. Yaghi, 2025 winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry, told the conference.
“I think we are in the middle of a revolution, transforming chemistry by blending it with AI.”
