Ekin Dogus Cubuk of @periodiclabs on why AI has to learn from the physical world, and building their own lab to close that loop: "One of the more fundamental ways of making things around us is powder synthesis... You can actually, using that method, discover new superconductors, magnets, all kinds of materials that are very important for technologies around us." "But at the core of it is just quantum mechanics. And we feel like teaching these LLMs quantum mechanics will be the next frontier…