The entire purpose of the paper is eliminating a brute force search. It wouldn’t be possible to identify these materials with brute force. Deep learning lets you bypass brute force by zooming in on the shapes in the energy landscape that are relevant to what you’re doing. A similar thing is possible with human intuition. It’s certainly not the case that this has allowed people to completely avoid experimentation, but I share it to point out that it’s not actually impossible to have very strong models of the energy landscape.
The entire purpose of the paper is eliminating a brute force search. It wouldn’t be possible to identify these materials with brute force. Deep learning lets you bypass brute force by zooming in on the shapes in the energy landscape that are relevant to what you’re doing. A similar thing is possible with human intuition. It’s certainly not the case that this has allowed people to completely avoid experimentation, but I share it to point out that it’s not actually impossible to have very strong models of the energy landscape.