[epidemiology]

AI tools are hopefully going to eat lots of manual scientific research. This article looks at error spotting, but you follow the path of getting better and better at error spotting to it's conclusion and you essentially reproduce the work entirely from scratch. So in fact AI study generation is really where this is going.

All my work could honestly be done instantaneously with better data harmonization & collection along with better engineering practices. Instead, it requires a lot of manual effort. I remember my professors talking about how they used to calculate linear regressions by hand back in the old days. Hopefully a lot of the data cleaning and study setup that is done now sounds similar to a set of future scientists who use AI tools to operate and check these basic programatic and statistical tasks.

[zozbot234]

I really really hope it doesn't. The last thing I ever want is to be living in a world where all the scientific studies are written by hallucinating stochastic parrots.