Will AI still need human knowledge to improve?

I'm thinking about taking a degree on AI but I'm also a little bit worried about his exponential growth towards AGI and ASI, which will be able to improve himself without the need of human intervention. So i have some questions about it. Do you think that AI will still need human intervention in the next years? If we reach singularity before 2030, will my knowledge be useless? Is the human research effort in this sector going to be replaced …

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