Education Implications of Artificial Intelligence-Based Chemistry and Physics Nobel Prizes

The 2024 Nobel Prizes awarded in both Chemistry and Physics appear to potentially usher in a new era. The concept that building tools to enhance the role played by data-science-based artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in advancing science has been acknowledged with the highest awards in the sciences. Will such methods ultimately require changes in the way the sciences themselves are taught? It may be too early in the development of AI tools for education to definitively answer this question. It is probably not too early, however, to start considering the similarities and differences between AI applications in the sciences and in science education.