the first niche research paper I found looking recently, on a niche topic.. was "AI for reading research papers" that looked for nouns associated with this nich

the first niche research paper I found looking recently, on a niche topic.. was "AI for reading research papers" that looked for nouns associated with this niche, and then the context, and did that for thousands of publications. That writeup was released publicly in 2018. If you think a founder of Google does not have tools like that on Day0, you might be in for some surprises in a year.