This article discusses the impact of AI on the life sciences field, which includes the pharmaceutical, medical and agricultural industries. It also highlights the importance of AI in the development and improvement of these industries, as well as the challenges faced by life sciences-based companies to get patent protection for their AI-based inventions. AI has been around since the 1950s, and generative AI tools have led to the invention of things such as virtual assistants, self-driving cars, smart homes, chatbots and surgical bots. AI is a computer science field that covers a wide range of areas intended to improve the ability of machines to make data-driven decisions and accurate predictions of events. AI, in combination with other tools such as machine learning and natural language processing, will help life sciences companies provide faster solutions in a cost-effective manner and with better public reach.