The Future of Innovation: How AI Turns Intuition and Cross-Domain Thinking into Scientific Discovery
Last Updated on October 13, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Shenggang Li
Originally published on Towards AI.
The Future of Innovation: How AI Turns Intuition and Cross-Domain Thinking into Scientific Discovery
In every age, people have redefined what it means to create.
The Industrial Revolution turned physical work into something machines could do.
The Digital Revolution did the same for information.
The article discusses how the ongoing AI Revolution is transforming creativity by enabling individuals to explore and organize ideas across different domains without the need for deep expertise in each field. By using AI as a partner, innovators can enhance their creative processes, allowing for rapid development and testing of concepts—demonstrating that collaboration between human intuition and AI’s computational capabilities is reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery.
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