The exact wording of the requirement is obviously institution - dependent, and of course no university requires completely
autonomous and isolated
research and
writing in the production of a thesis.
In other industry sectors AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning have been busy transcribing voice to date, bailing banks out of precarious risk positions or preventing rogue traders,
writing it's own coding language, navigating
autonomous vehicles, precision guiding military munitions, conducting medical genome
research and helping to forecast climate change.
On 2 November 2017, more than 120 members of the Australian AI
research community
wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ask Australia to endorse the call to ban lethal
autonomous weapons systems and commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective.