The current technology is generating staggering amounts of data. Sequencing the first genome cost $30 billion and took 10 years, whereas now it would cost only $800 and take only a day.
AI can analyze the huge amounts of data generated in a lab. That's really where it comes in handy. We're now generating such vast amounts of data that it would be impossible to study and interpret them without artificial intelligence.
Among other things, artificial intelligence is helping to improve diagnosis and interpret tests. Therefore, it has a big role to play in medicine in general, and more specifically in neuroscience.
I'd also like to mention that the “Canadian flavour” of AI is copying the brain. Neuroscience and artificial intelligence go hand-in-hand. We've made a great deal of progress in AI because of the circuits and approaches we've mastered in neuroscience.