如何拥抱智能时代--以化学学科为例

How to embrace the age of intelligence--taking chemistry as an example

本文从人类社会发展的视角论述了拥抱智能时代的重要性,对第四次工业革命的核心技术--人工智能及其将如何影响人类社会做了简要描述;接着以化学学科的研究为例,通过介绍一些有代表性的研究工作,从基础、工具和应用三个层次,重点论述了机器智能如何改变学科研究范式以及如何帮助人类加快科学发现;最后,对人工智能与其他领域的结合提出了一些方法和路径.

This perspective provides some helpful reflections on how cutting-edge achievements in artificial intelligence can be applied to academic research.We first discuss the importance of embracing the age of intelligence from a social development perspective,and describe how AI technology,as the core foundation of the fourth industrial revolution,would impact society.Taking chemical research as an example,using representative research work,we then elaborate on how machine intelligence has changed the research paradigm and accelerated scientific discoveries at various levels—basics,tools,and applications.Finally,we put forward some suggestions to the researchers who are willing to conduct interdisciplinary studies by engaging artificial intelligence in their fields of expertise.