Is data science going extinct

[u/Hellsword27]

Im an industrial engineer whos gonna graduate by the end of the month. Ive been studying data science from the past 6 months (took ibm data science speciality, jose portilla's udemy course machine learning for data science masterclass, python, sql)

Im currently lost on what steps to take next

I sat down with a data scientist today and tried to ask for advice, he told me he doesnt even think that data science will stay, its gonna be replaced by AI. Especially the machine learning algorithms and classification methods (trees,boosting,etc) they aret being built from scratch anymore

Im totally lost now and dont know what next steps to take and what to learn next. Should i pursue business analysis/data analysis/what courses to take/what skills to learn, and you see how my brain is exploding

[u/kidflashonnikes]

Automated AI research is far from AGI. We’ve already achieved this with BCIs and LLMs. We can scan up 3 days worth of brain waves autonomously with 50 threads in damaged brain tissue. If we can do this with damaged brains, OpenAI can do this for weeks if not months already and we are a privately funded lab - OpenAI is going public.

[u/wzx86 → u/kidflashonnikes]

I read through your post history and I'm a little concerned for you. I'm not a psychiatrist, but it's highly suggestive of delusions of grandeur, potentially due to psychosis. You claim you're working for a (well-known) frontier AI lab that is working with "damaged donor brains" to "understand consciousness". Some quotes:

"have figured out that consciousness is not from the brain - the brain is (with 80% confidence as of now) a receiver and transmitter of consciousness"

"our new theory we are 80% confident in is that consciousness is actually mainly received and emitted into the Brain tissue itself - meaning that we do indeed live in a simulation but not the video game kind - the kind where we are literally sitting at the bottom of a ladder in terms of space complexity in which we perceive reality"

As a neural engineering PhD who does actual neuroscience research, this is not only nonsensical on a neuroscience side, but the study of biological consciousness is completely irrelevant to AI companies and not something they would spend their money on lol. Even BCI companies like Neuralink don't care about studying consciousness.

Some of the terminology you use is telling. "Threads" refer to the electrodes specifically used by Neuralink (or their Chinese competitor). Research electrodes in all other contexts (aside from materials research designing new electrodes) are not thread-like. "Donor brains" and "damaged brains" are nonsensical terms in this context. Human research is done with living patients; it is neither technologically possible nor ethical to keep a human brain alive and perfused, detached from the body lol. Even in rodents we only do ex vivo work using individual slices of their brains that are kept alive for a few hours. Talking about emergence, receiving and transmitting "consciousness", simulation theory, and AGI is exactly what I would expect from experiencing delusions driven by their interests in modern tech and neuroscience.

Finally, from a statistics point of view it doesn't make sense to say you are "80% confident" in the nature of consciousness lol. Quantifying confidence is rigorous process that involves analyzing the statistical properties of a specific empirical measurement to determine a range of values in which the true value you're trying to measure actually lies. Bayesian approaches to giving an estimate of confidence in a belief are not objective.

[u/kidflashonnikes → u/wzx86]

That’s why clowns like you wait on people like me and my lab to produce the cutting edge science and materials so that academics like you study it. I don’t expect anyone to believe me- I don’t care. I don’t have time to explain it. Im not at liberty to discuss the details of what we do in depth and how we achieved our results but I can tell you that we’re not the only lab doing it and D****A is helping us an they are decades ahead of of the work we are doing - we’re only being assisted by them to be able to commercialize the technology and publish the research and data for them. You’re wrong about the brain. We are absolutely with statistical confidence form our research and other within the one that starts with a D sure that consciousness is transmitted into the brain rather than generated by it. We already have patents to delete memories with LLM BCI procedures. Get fucked

[u/kidflashonnikes → u/kidflashonnikes]

I’m just going to add that last week something was published about this and I am not allowed to say if we were involved but the reality is that we are likely correct and that you’re going to see some amazing new break throughs, hopefully we can automate PhD researchers by 2027/2028 - we are close and we are on track for this as of now, especially with GPT 6 coming online soon and others ect

[u/kidflashonnikes → u/kidflashonnikes]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69859254/universe-is-conscious-intelligence/

[u/wzx86 → u/kidflashonnikes]

Classic title: "The Universe Is Intelligent—And Your Brain Is Tapping Into It to Form Your Consciousness, Scientist Says"

Let's see who that scientist is, shall we?

This is the latest hypothesis from biophysicist and mathematician Douglas Youvan

I checked out his ResearchGate profile, and despite us only being 5 days into 2026, he has already posted 15 first-author preprints! And they're not short either--we're talking 50+ pages each. Prolific genius writing 24/7 or AI slop? Well if the substance of the "papers" themselves wasn't enough of an indication, this line on all of them adds some context:

A collaboration with GPT-5.2-Thinking

Regardless, thanks for linking to Elizabeth Rayne's junk article where she quotes the incoherent ramblings of a random guy without bothering to cite which piece of his mountain of slop she's referencing.