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/drdessertlover Dec 10 '24

This is a problem that any company with a decent data science capability has already solved (started work on). As others said, you will have difficulties getting documents which are proprietary i.e. you're more or less working with the same database as chatgpt. It could be a great project for your resume but I don't think you can monetize this.