Copilot can absolutely do the jobs of Data Scientists who got hired based on some minimal skills that were considered valuable even three years back.
I have tried applying Copilot to my own work where it spews- garbage. But I use Copilot a lot to generate some example data, or write repetitive code- I needed a basic Flask frontend and I used Copilot to do 70% of the job. But it cannot yet solve Vision tasks.
> " I think there will always be a role for the person who can turn around and say"
These roles, if and when they start to exist, will exist in extremely tiny numbers. And they will all likely be hired from Stanford/Oxbridge/MIT/Caltech, and they will have PhDs.
If this scenario plays out, then, I am afraid for my future, too.
I have tried applying Copilot to my own work where it spews- garbage. But I use Copilot a lot to generate some example data, or write repetitive code- I needed a basic Flask frontend and I used Copilot to do 70% of the job. But it cannot yet solve Vision tasks.
> " I think there will always be a role for the person who can turn around and say"
These roles, if and when they start to exist, will exist in extremely tiny numbers. And they will all likely be hired from Stanford/Oxbridge/MIT/Caltech, and they will have PhDs.
If this scenario plays out, then, I am afraid for my future, too.