I just stumbled onto this: "Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025?" http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2025.html http://www.

I just stumbled onto this: "Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025?" http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2025.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2... Nothing to get excited about, especially since you aren't yet invested. However, should the odds indeed be high that ML will become automated by 2025 then another field choice might be wiser.