Artificial intelligence is for optimization -- human intelligence is for innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be a brilliant product of human innovation. It automates a wide variety of business processes to the scale of the internet, of email, and of digital media. It can do things that humans never could -- like predict hospital outcomes from Electronic Medical Records and explore the galaxy using datasets too massive for humans to fathom. While a significant innovation in itself, AI only produces optimizations for existing practice. It detects patterns, but does not comprehend the physical world.