> Thankfully research is not guided by notions like "what makes money in the current economy" Unfortunately I don't believe this is true for AI research... I t

> Thankfully research is not guided by notions like "what makes money in the current economy" Unfortunately I don't believe this is true for AI research... I think you'll find a strong correlation with each year's most cited papers and what's currently popular in industry. There's always exceptions, but we moved to a world where we're highly benchmark oriented, and that means we're highly reliant on having large compute infrastructures, and that means that the access and/or funding comes from industry. Who is obviously going to pressure research directions towards certain things.