The only reason I can think for people flagging this is that they are afraid for their jobs. I don't blame them. I work in NLP and fear that sometime in the ne

The only reason I can think for people flagging this is that they are afraid for their jobs. I don't blame them. I work in NLP and fear that sometime in the next 20 to 50 years a significant portion of my own work will be automated away by increasingly sophisticated transformers models. This, combined with the increasingly centralization of the means to do effective AI research, leaves me believing that eventually I'll have to change fields if I want to keep making a paycheck...