Raw LLM Responses

>I don't think my major in biological science is exempt from automation. In fact, robots are already carrying out biological experiments, and software is enabling the rational design of drugs. By the time I finish my major in 2 or 3 years, then spend additional years earning a PhD, will there will be room for people who learned old techniques that could already be outdated? Grad student in the biological sciences here -we're not exempt from automation, but I think you underestimate the amount of pure thinking and planning that goes into working as a grad student. We do like to joke about our boss replacing us with robots, but the fact is that any PI with more than a few people in their lab couldn't hope to keep up with the details of all the projects going on, even if all the bench work was done by a machine. Until we have something much closer to a general AI, science will still require lots of people. >Don't get me wrong - I find the subject of my major to be quite interesting. However, I don't even know if I want to work in a lab, day in and out, nor do I even know that that's what I'll be doing after I graduate. In fact, I'll probably need to go to graduate school, if I can even get in, to hope to maybe have a chance to do real science. What once required a bachelor's degree now requires a master's, and what once required a master's now requires a PhD. You can do science without a PhD, but you'll be a lab tech, probably without much opportunity to think and plan your own experiments. Either lab tech or PhD, though, you *will* be working in a lab, day in, day out. I also was concerned about this, as I'm easily bored, but if you find the right project, there will often be something new and interesting to think about or try -not saying it's all fun and games, but between reading cool papers, arguing with lab mates about crazy hypotheses, and spending way too much time playing with dry ice, science can be pretty fun. >The very people in the lab I worke