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I agree with you that AI is a well-funded area of research, although if you take the view that traditional forms of research, eg private or academic, come with
by bdcs 11y ago
I agree with you that AI is a well-funded area of research, although if you take the view that traditional forms of research, eg private or academic, come with crippling problems -- short-term horizons, corrupting influence of profits, publish or parish, time wasted in meetings/grant-writing -- then you can see the potential of having a more long-term, focused, and centralized space for inventing AI.
>> YC Research decided to join the same arms race that companies like Toyota are joining.
Or perhaps YC Research providing a sandbox next to a warzone.
- argonaut 11y agoAI research is a very deserving field. And the market/research community recognizes that! So it's not an area where there is a lack of job opportunities for researchers to do research and publish papers. That sandbox would be a faculty position. I would be more sympathetic to that idea if it weren't the case that universities are hiring machine learning faculty like crazy. There are many areas where the market/research interest is low, but the area is very deserving and of great benefit to society (clean energy?)