The Last Astronomers. “Many fear that if unleashed in all parts of the scientific process, AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics as a human endeavor.”
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This fits nicely with yesterday's AI compass quiz. The folks interviewed kinda fall all over the spectrum. Also, the author kinda lost me early on when they called astrophysicists stargazers. astrophysics is kinda mostly hard hard maths, right? Astronomers gather the data, but not all astronomers are astrophysicists and few ap's are astronomers per se.
I'm thinking that there will always be somewhere challenging for the maths geniuses, whether it's called astrophysics or not.
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