This and the above comment kind of says my thoughts on the matter. I think there is a very real emerging field that combines mathematics, traditional computer s

This and the above comment kind of says my thoughts on the matter. I think there is a very real emerging field that combines mathematics, traditional computer science, and AI into a big family resemblance of quantitative methods and research, but that we're still in the early stages and we're still sorting things out. I remember hearing someone on hacker news joke that when he got out of school people called him a statistician, then people started saying he was a data miner, and now he sells himself as a data scientist, but he hasn't actually done anything differently apart from just keeping up with the field. Sometimes it feels as if we're just playing with words and people get excited for advances and what it means for the future, but the reality is people just keep plodding along make incremental progress, finding new ways to leverage the tools they have, and continuing to publish papers. For all of the tech industry's worship of "disruptive innovation" and massive changes, the reality is that we've been developing and refining our quantitative abilities and figuring out automation since the industrial revolution. AI may become less exciting to people 5 years from now, but we will still continue doing what we've been doing.