Thomas F. Bailey, PhD presents AI and the 5-Step Scientific Method Can Be Catastrophically Incompatible. His talk argues that if AI input is corrupted, the output will also be corrupted, and that AI and the scientific method can often be in direct conflict.
The presentation focuses on nanocarbons discovered 40 years ago at Rice University, where Bailey says a false geodesic dome model of structure and bonding was proposed and then supported by the 1996 Nobel Prize related to fullerenes. He says TeslaTech work over the past four years supports a revolutionary NonEuclidean concept of bonding involving curvature and electron delocalization.
Bailey’s work with carbon allotropes led to a Composition of Matter patent for the new super allotrope crossene, joining diamond, graphite/graphene, and fullerene allotropes. His presentation argues that long-standing bonding concepts in chemistry have been faulty and that a new concept of bonding could advance the development of chemistry.
Bailey earned a PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, pursued postdoctoral work with two world-class chemists, and later worked as an industrial chemist at Dow, Shell, and Exxon-Mobil as a patent analyst and database searcher.