Data Science Automation (IT Best Kept Secret Is Optimization)

Will data scientists disappear soon? I am asking the question as I see more and more papers about why data scientists may be a parenthesis in history. Latest I read is Will The'Best Job Of 2016' Soon Become Redundant? To his point, there is indeed a number of software and cloud services aiming at automating data science. Marr cites IBM Watson Analytics as a great example of this.