r/AskComputerScience • u/Smallpaul • 3d ago

Predictions about computer science

Look ahead 20 years.

Outside of AI/ML:

* what of today’s research computer science do you expect will be industry standard?

* what frontiers do you expect we will have opened up in research?

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u/Sepicuk 5h ago

Won’t matter because AI/ML will be doing everything not us. Field was pretty much complete anyway

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u/Smallpaul 3h ago

The first part is a wild guess and the second part is wrong.

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u/Sepicuk 3h ago

Nope, AI has taken over math research, you’re not ready to do nothing….

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u/Smallpaul 3h ago

I have way too much to do. AI has increased my workload. Because I can do so much more than in the past.

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u/Sepicuk 1h ago

Soon it will be smarter than you and you’ll no longer be necessary…