As science historian John Horgan noted in The End of Science the parallel in physics is with academic humanities departments becoming mired in "irony" The End

As science historian John Horgan noted in The End of Science the parallel in physics is with academic humanities departments becoming mired in "irony" The End of (one type of) Physics, and the Rise of the Machines https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10680 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10680 Seems there are two possible outcomes. The deluge of data leads to better correlation which smooths over the flaws in current models. And corrects errors with some minor fudge factor that contains no further significance. From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05965 https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05965 Or something deeply profound is discovered. The thing which cannot be ignored. And instead leads to an explosion of new physics. Recognizing patterns of the latter class will perhaps always be the domain of the human operator.