  A key aim of this paper is to explore how our professional tasks as
geoscientists and petroleum engineers can be completed more effectively making
use of tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), offered in commercial
platforms now readily available to individual users. This paper intends to
provide some guidance, but at the same time does not claim to be comprehensive
or conclusive in any way. The paper presents a utility assessment from the
research and teaching vantage points of two professors and one student, from
geosciences and petroleum engineering departments. After a brief overview of
the new technologies, some key questions raised include: How can one assess
originality of class papers by students and research papers by their
professors? How will the contribution of intelligent devices be acknowledged?
Will the presentation of conference papers by author avatars be accepted by the
organizing committee?
