RIP Data Scientists: The Generative AI Data Scientist Is What Companies Now Want
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-23
The data scientist role is being reshaped: companies now want a "Generative AI Data Scientist," and the author argues that's good news. Enterprises are sitting on mountains of unstructured data — PDFs, Word docs, meeting notes, emails, videos, audio transcripts — useful but unusable in its current form, and this new role uses AI to turn it into business insight.
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