Is Data Science Obsolete in the Age of AI?

In this Open Lab, Digital Humanities Analyst Namig Abbasov will seek to answer questions such as “Machine age … stuff like that….” Many of us remember this quote from the “Push-Button Kitty” episode of our favorite childhood cartoon “Tom and Jerry,” where Tom’s human asks the cat to leave his job and hence the house as she gets a new mouse catcher, a robotic one. The episode was released in 1952. 

After more than 70 years, humans in various job roles, including data science, are on the brink of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) after the advent of transformer architecture and subsequent rapid developments in generative AI. Will the rising developments in AI replace data scientists? How is generative AI transforming data science? How does the landscape of the data science job market look after the rapid developments in deep learning, generative AI and large language models?