alt Hacker NewsAI needs humans to encode ideas in words. It needs those ideas to span the space of possibilities of, say, Navier Stokes. Then AI can be, as you say, a terrifyingly effective way to search that space.
But when the building-block ideas are still being formed, I'm not sure that AI is good at forming them.
COrrect and this is how labour displacement happens.
There are many actions being performed today that can be nicely packaged.
Im already working on such a project.