I think, of course, skepticism around this "LLM discovers X" thing is warranted, and there have been plenty of more recent examples around questionable LLM "discoveries". Just stating this because the LK99 thing I believe was notable as a (supposed) room-temp _super_conductor while this is about a _semi_conductor.

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post-it 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

Oh wait, you're right. I misread the title. Don't we already have room temperature semiconductors?

	▲	gus_massa 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. This has interesting magnetic properties. In magnetic materials, you must calculate separately the current with spin up and spin down and there ara meny interesting applications. My favorite is[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance [1] Was. Because it has used for hard disks (see the applications section). Now SSD ruins the interesting anecdote.