AI for Science: The Next Big AI Opportunity
AI for Science: The Next Big AI Opportunity AI's biggest opportunity may not be productivity, but faster discovery. What boards need to know about AI, science, R&D and competitive advantage. AI’s Next Big Opportunity Is Not Productivity. It Is Discovery. 200 million. That is roughly how many protein structure predictions AlphaFold has made available to researchers. A scientific problem that had consumed enormous amounts of experimental time was suddenly attacked at computational scale. That number matters far beyond biology. For most of the past few years, the business conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by productivity: write the report faster, automate customer service, reduce coding effort, remove administrative work. All useful. I also think we may eventually look back and conclude that this was the least interesting part of the AI revolution. After three decades around enterprise technology decisions, I have seen the same pattern repeatedly. A ne...