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b'For centuries, science has been driven\\xa0by human intellect. But what will science look\\xa0like with AI at its creative center?While the world begins to grapple with the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence, its potential impact on science\\xa0and medicine\\xa0is fast becoming the subject of discussion. As the use of AI techniques to analyze data become more widespread, it raises the question of how long science\\xa0and medicine\\xa0will even continue to be driven by human intellect.

But before we try to imagine the\\xa0future of\\xa0these fields, we need to take an honest look at how science\\xa0and medicine are\\xa0currently practiced. That\'s what Ben\\xa0Lewin\\xa0does in this book, covering everything from the "grant game" that\\xa0doctors and\\xa0scientists have to play (doing the research they think can get funded rather than the research they think will most benefit mankind), to the "publish or perish" mentality that permeates both teaching hospitals and universities (despite the fact that the papers are a "myth" in that they present the\\xa0research process as linear even though that\'s not how science works),\\xa0to the way politics can stall even the most promising fields of study (like stem cells, which keep facing roadblocks even after demonstrating the potential for building replacement organs).'