AI Will Turn Researchers into 'Professors' Commanding Hundreds of AI Assistants
Robert_Palgrave · x · 2026-08-01
Disagreeing with the notion that future AI-driven research will feel like an endless undergraduate or early-PhD phase, the author argues that it will be akin to being a distinguished professor with hundreds of AI graduate students.
Driven by curiosity, this paradigm will minimize competitiveness and ego, as AI models will perform research faster and better than most humans and be more readily available than eminent researchers.
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