It might indeed. 25 years of human nursing, diapering, potty training, educating, drug rehabilitating, and more educating gets you a competent human researcher about 1 time in 40, so artificial researchers are likely to be much cheaper and quicker to produce. But I sometimes wonder just how much of human innovation stems from the fact that not all human researchers have had exactly the same education.
If machine researchers are anything like phones or PCs, there will be millions of identical clones—but also substantial variation. Not just variation caused by different upbringings and histories, but variation caused by different architectural design.
By contrast humans are mostly all the same—due to being built using much the same recipe inherited from a recent common ancestor. We aren’t built for doing research—whereas they probably will be. They will likely be running rings around us soon enough.
It might indeed. 25 years of human nursing, diapering, potty training, educating, drug rehabilitating, and more educating gets you a competent human researcher about 1 time in 40, so artificial researchers are likely to be much cheaper and quicker to produce. But I sometimes wonder just how much of human innovation stems from the fact that not all human researchers have had exactly the same education.
If machine researchers are anything like phones or PCs, there will be millions of identical clones—but also substantial variation. Not just variation caused by different upbringings and histories, but variation caused by different architectural design.
By contrast humans are mostly all the same—due to being built using much the same recipe inherited from a recent common ancestor. We aren’t built for doing research—whereas they probably will be. They will likely be running rings around us soon enough.