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To be brutally honest, I must confess that as a European in a peripheral university, also working in an AI subfield, I feel a bit of glee about this. Those eli
by Al-Khwarizmi 8y ago
To be brutally honest, I must confess that as a European in a peripheral university, also working in an AI subfield, I feel a bit of glee about this.
Those elite American universities have been sucking talent away from all over the world, and working with an amount of resources that provide them with a considerable advantage.
Now they receive some taste of their own medicine.
Note: I'm aware that there is nothing bad in what those universities have done (probably every university would do the same if they could or knew how) and I shouldn't feel like that! But I'm just human, and unfortunately far from being a perfect human... and being beaten to results by people that have 3x as many PhD students and 10x as much GPU power ends up creating bitter feelings.
- projectramo 8y agoThis is just going to make it more competitive for everyone. Even more European professors will be hired away for even more money. Note: I am not saying it’s better or worse, just (much) more competitive.
- richardhod 8y agoYet I'm not sure that this Schadenfreude is at all useful for you, since these will instead also outGPU your research. I hope you can come up with a great AI business and compete with these companies, rather than be sad at the structural realities of global capitalism!