Do you ever think about how you think? How thoughts just appear in your head? How often do you consciously reason through something versus simply feeling that something is right or wrong?
First, let's define intuition. Intuition is a feeling or judgment that comes to you without consciously working through all the reasoning. It's why you can read a paragraph and immediately feel that it was AI generated. Or why you can walk into a room and recognize that something isn't right before you can explain why.
A lot of intuition comes from experience. You have seen enough patterns that your brain no longer needs to consciously reason through every step.
AI has general knowledge and can be fed rules and constraints, but there is no guarantee that what AI feeds you or generates is actually correct for the problem you're trying to solve. Let's say we are training a license plate detector. We ask AI what we need and it will activate its generic computer vision checklist, which advocates for:
dataset diversity -> weather -> seasons -> lighting -> angles -> more data
It's not wrong per se. It's just not accurately reasoning about the real bottlenecks. Maybe you already have a couple thousand plates and your detector has effectively reached 100% recall. At that point, getting plates from every season and weather condition might not actually be where your time is best spent. AI has the general knowledge of how to build a detector, but you have the better model of the actual problem.
The new skill is being able to model the problem in your head and then provide AI with the information it needs to solve it. This also includes being able to read what AI has written and judge whether it actually makes sense for the problem in front of you.