Maybe these academics should learn to code now that they’re about to have their lunch eaten too. Boo hoo. Power imbalances exist within academia as well. The p

Maybe these academics should learn to code now that they’re about to have their lunch eaten too. Boo hoo. Power imbalances exist within academia as well. The professor at MIT has much more access and probably a lighter teaching load than a professor at, say, a big state university. Labs, teams that help you write grants, a shit load of money, book deals, podcasts, and much more. If academics want to publish their work first they’ll have to compete and figure out how to do that. At the end of the day what matters for humanity is that the problem is solved, not whoever’s ego is stroked by being the first. In the spirit of collaboration shouldn’t they have been publicly sharing their work through every step? Maybe had they done that months or years ago some other researcher could have solved it even faster! Wait, what’s the point? Who solves it, how fast it is solved, or whether or not a human solved it? Times are a changin’. Get with the program. If any of the charlatans are to be believed this is the big one. It’s the steam engine on steroids. Now what? The public (HN is a tiny bubble that doesn’t represent the population broadly) is looking around and saying wow, so some researchers thought they were close and OpenAI turned its attention to this problem and just went and solved it? Cool. They don’t care about some pissing match about vague ideas of stolen conversations when they are delivering Uber Eats to your dorm room. With that said and now that I’ve anchored on an unpopular idea, I welcome my demise in the comments section. Woe to me and my karma :p