At the heart of science is a simple motivation (JSPS Guidelines for Responding to Misconduct in Research):
Scientific research is an activity in which we, motivated by intellectual curiosity and a desire for exploration, seek to understand truths about various phenomena surrounding us, how they happen, what causes them to happen.
To those who feel overwhelmed when working in AI/ML
Staying creative, being true to yourself, and listening to nature.
On using AI for writing papers
It seems like many people are using AI to write papers, but it is important to realize that we should write the papers ourselves and then use AI only for critiquing what we have written. The reason is that writing is thinking; we dont write, we dont think.