r/ChemicalEngineering • u/RevolutionaryAd8906 • Dec 09 '24

Software Chemical engineering + Ai

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I am a chemical engineer with experience in building web applications. I’m considering developing a custom Large Language Model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT, but specifically fine-tuned with chemical engineering references and additional data, such as a database of chemical reactions.

The goal is to create a tool that provides precise answers along with citations, including the reference title and chapter for better traceability.

As a chemical engineer, would you be interested in using a tool like this? If so, how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription?

Edit: Many people said chatgpt already enough so as chemical engineer how do you think we can use llm models to improve our tasks?

Edit 2: So the next issue with the project will be data source and copyrights

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u/devallnighty Dec 09 '24

As mentioned elsewhere, you’ve started with a solution and are looking for an ill defined problem to solve. What deficit are you trying to fill here? For who? At the moment it sounds like something a search on Knovel would handily do, as any engineer worth their salt is going to want to understand the reference to any llm answer (or god help anyone at that facility).