BUFFALO, N.Y. – Creative scientist. To the general public, those words don’t belong together. Popular conceptions suggest that scientists rely on facts and proof, not creativity. And creativity has ...
A new study examining 68 million scientific papers shows using AI boosts researchers' careers, but narrows the questions they ask. Reading time 3 minutes Adopting artificial intelligence tools to ...
Scientists who demonstrated creative approaches to AI-assisted research were far more likely to produce transformative, rather than incremental, innovations. Incremental improvements—those that ...