It underrates the difficulty of automating the job of a researcher. Real world work environments are messy and contain lots of detail that are neglected in an abstraction purely focused on writing code and reasoning about the results of experiments. As a result, we shouldn’t expect automating AI R&D to be much easier than automating remote work in general.
I basically agree. The reason I expect AI R&D automation to happen before the rest of remote work isn’t because I think it’s fundamentally much easier, but because (a) companies will try to automate it before other remote work tasks, and relatedly (b) because companies have access to more data and expertise for AI R&D than other fields.
I basically agree. The reason I expect AI R&D automation to happen before the rest of remote work isn’t because I think it’s fundamentally much easier, but because (a) companies will try to automate it before other remote work tasks, and relatedly (b) because companies have access to more data and expertise for AI R&D than other fields.