Artificial Intelligence Inverts Science Ownership
How the Future of Science Now Belongs to the Intuitive, Nonlinear Thinker
Artificial intelligence inverts science ownership.
Before, those who excelled at mathematical machinery and humdrum lab work slowly pushed the needle. This has been the bulk of what it means to do and be responsible for science.
But progress was never truly fueled by mundane, linear thinking. It has always been driven and led by that spark of deep intuition.
It is the spark of intuition that a mathematician chases, and the scientist pursues, and for much of history, rather poorly, given the type of person who usually excels at the bulk of humdrum work (save a few brilliant folk).
But AI can now do the humdrum. It can clean the mess of intuition, back it with mechanical formulae, citations and whatever “rigorous” expectations the scientific community demands.
This means the bulk of science can now be handed to those who understand and excel at intuition. Those who feel deeply the patterns of nature, making the kind of analogical connections that history’s clockwork scientists couldn’t do.
Artificial intelligence inverts science ownership, letting a fresh group of deeply intuitive, nonlinear thinkers take the lead in science.
A most natural return to humanity’s original and highest skill.