Those were government projects. Think about all the useful and necessary things that professional athlete's salaries dwarf. I feel that at least these researc

Those were government projects. Think about all the useful and necessary things that professional athlete's salaries dwarf. I feel that at least these researchers are getting paid their perceived value instead of all that value being absorbed by FANNG. I think AI research is sort of like cutting a diamond, where every few percent more efficient could result in huge sums saved in infrastructure costs for training and inference and Capex.