Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Large Language Models for Science (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is home to the AI Testbed. Researchers can access platforms, including this Cerebras CS-2, to study how machine learning-based high performance computing applications will interface with today’s supercomputers to accelerate scientific discovery (image by Argonne National Laboratory).

December 3, 2024 | Originally published by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on October 28, 2024

Chat-GPT, DALL-E and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools based on large language models (LLMs) are causing seismic shifts in the way people create and communicate. Users can interact with these ​“chat bot” LLMs by asking or typing a question in plain language rather than by learning a complicated computer code. And the results come nearly instantaneously. But we’ve only scratched the surface of what this technology can do.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory are at the forefront of harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and LLMs to speed up the rate of scientific discovery and change the way that people do science. They’re training LLMs to solve problems across different scientific disciplines. They’re also training human scientists to get the most out of AI.