This is one thing I've been wondering about AI: will its broad training enable it to uncover previously covered connections between areas the way multi-disciplinary people tend to, or will it still miss them because it's still limited to its training corpus and can't really infer.
If it ends up being more the case that AI can help us discover new stuff, that's very optimistic.
If it ends up being more the case that AI can help us discover new stuff, that's very optimistic.