Beyond The Polanyi Paradox: How Human-Aware AI Unlocks Creativity And Breakthrough Discoveries

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed scientific research and innovation, yet as previously discussed, the Polanyi Paradox remains a significant obstacle to using AI to generate creative solutions or breakthrough discoveries. According to the Polanyi Paradox, AI models that only learn from explicit knowledge will lack the tacit or intuitive knowledge of humans and may generate obvious results. Hence, approaches to addressing the Polanyi Paradox are of interest to anyone using AI models to seek new discoveries. 

Human-aware AI models, as reported by Sourati and Evans in Nature Human Behaviour, offer an approach to developing AI models that are more effective in generating creative solutions and discoveries – or even scientific breakthroughs. The human-aware AI model developed by the authors improved AI prediction of new material science discoveries by 400%.