All of the research that I’ve done as an undergrad has basically been data reduction/data analysis; I think that a narrow AI could be developed within 20 years to do all of what I’ve been doing with much greater efficiency. So much of it is automated/on the computer already that taking the extra step would not be relatively difficult.
Understanding specifically what I was doing and why took some time, and there are still things left for me to learn, but I think that that sort of work is not secure at all from being replaced by automation. If anyone is curious, I’m talking about the field of spectroscopic chemical abundance analysis.
All of the research that I’ve done as an undergrad has basically been data reduction/data analysis; I think that a narrow AI could be developed within 20 years to do all of what I’ve been doing with much greater efficiency. So much of it is automated/on the computer already that taking the extra step would not be relatively difficult.
Understanding specifically what I was doing and why took some time, and there are still things left for me to learn, but I think that that sort of work is not secure at all from being replaced by automation. If anyone is curious, I’m talking about the field of spectroscopic chemical abundance analysis.