Why One Automated Step Isn't Enough | Visual AI Learning Guide

Now suppose you automate just one of those stages. Say a robot runs the experiments perfectly, every time. Does that make the lab autonomous?

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Automating a single stage leaves the rest of the chain untouched. If a machine runs the experiments but a person still chooses the target and interprets the results, the lab as a whole is not autonomous. The automated node may speed up its own step while the surrounding steps remain human-dependent, and the handoffs between them still require judgment. This is why automating a task and running a lab are different achievements, and why the honest answer to whether AI can run a lab on its own is a matter of degree.