AI and the 21st century geologist

Do rock-kicking geos have a future in mining's new AI and machine learning dominated future? And is 'data scientist' the sexiest 21st century job in the world?

Richard Roberts in Toronto

Liv Carroll, a highly regarded geologist who now works out of Accenture's London office as the group's senior digital mining principal, told a PDAC 2018 gathering in Toronto she didn't think the traditional geologist's role in mineral discovery and mine planning would be made defunct by smart machines.