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State of the art can be (and usually is) born in academic labs.
by Yajirobe 6y ago
State of the art can be (and usually is) born in academic labs.
- markchen90 6y agoI don't think this is true. The ResNet was born at Microsoft, DQN was born at Deepmind, the Transformer was born at Google, and GPT2 was born at OpenAI. I'm obviously biased since I work at an industry AI lab, but we both have important roles to play.
- stonogo 6y agoResNet lead authors were from UC San Diego and the Transformer was a collaboration with U Toronto. There absolutely is innovation coming from industrial labs, but industrial ties to academia run deep -- especially at Stanford-born Google and affiliated organizations.