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Yeah, taking a step back, it‘s interesting what happened over the past 10 years or so. If Google were a „normal“ research institute, this would be fine, taking tax payers money, doing research, publishing results to advance the state of the art blah blah
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@paul_rietschka But they are not. And AI research has shifted from universities to big tech companies because universities couldn’t afford the money to put into compute resources. And now it seems we‘ve come full circle.
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@paul_rietschka So thanks, Google/Meta/OpenAI, for the hard work. Let‘s take it from here :) It also seems the public funding agencies really didn‘t see the opportunity here. They put millions in the large hadron collider but didn‘t see that similar investments were necessary for AI.