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That is very interesting that something as powerful as AI can't seem to make out chemistry that is just the structure of it. I think this shows chemistry is more of an art than before.

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It is surprising that it's so bad at it. I think it could probably get much better if trained on specific chemical structure material though, I suspect it's so bad just because it's drawing on anything, correct structure drawing or not, to create the images.

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Still better than these 'chemical structures' published on BBC that one time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-40774580

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Oooff, those are painful to look at. Though to be fair, still a step ahead of the AI, which can’t generate even remotely correct structures even if you ask it for a specific compound. I tried with several examples and all I got was some very vague and incorrect attempted 3D models returned.

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