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One of the most marvelous things about modern AI is how it enables you to become a "soft expert" in a field. Before, if you wanted to work in adjacent but unrelated fields you would face a high barrier, have to digest reams of material, maybe spend a few months or a year learning the language. Now you can ask AI to teach you most of these things. Especially if you are working with a collaborator, you can now grasp the essentials much more rapidly, and while you still don't become an expert (and should not claim to be one), you can now generate results that the experts will find meaningful and will help you validate. This is a big deal, because it means that those of us who work in one field and who have always wanted to work in another one in which the ideas would be at least partly portable, now have a clear and easy path to do it.
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