Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
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#2This papar is really interesting, especially so when you scroll to the Reference part ;)
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#3Academics can’t put themselves on a pedestal for being revolutionaries who care about the ultimate truth the most and at the same time whine when an advance comes along.
These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time.
And people will build the next GPT or whatever and even that’ll get boring. The people in big tech have to pivot and do whatever the economy demands. Whereas the academics can go back to writing papers like nothing changed.
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#4Academics can’t put themselves on a pedestal for being revolutionaries who care about the ultimate truth the most and at the same time whine when an advance comes along. These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time. And people w…
So endless upside might not actually exist ?
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#5Academics can’t put themselves on a pedestal for being revolutionaries who care about the ultimate truth the most and at the same time whine when an advance comes along. These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time. And people w…
So endless upside might not actually exist ?
It may or may not. I mean it’d be pretty hard to increase yields of GPU fabs or data center sizes another 100x. There are logistical limitations. Unless some Apollo level mission is created by a superpower, we will hit bottlenecks. Algorithmic innovation is the only long term bet.
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#6This paper is
1. Really a blog post disguised as a paper.
2. Silly.
3. Excellent.
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#7I expected this to include more resources like TPU Research Cloud, but it doesn't mention even TRC itself. Disappointing.
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#8This papar is really interesting, especially so when you scroll to the Reference part ;)
Right. Also, note the publication date...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
So endless upside might not actually exist ?
It may or may not. I mean it’d be pretty hard to increase yields of GPU fabs or data center sizes another 100x. There are logistical limitations. Unless some Apollo level mission is created by a superpower, we will hit bottlenecks. Algorithmic innovation is the only long term bet.
That hasn't been true for optimizing compilers either.
Re: Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
#10Academics can’t put themselves on a pedestal for being revolutionaries who care about the ultimate truth the most and at the same time whine when an advance comes along. These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time. And people w…
> These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time.
This was my thought too. It cost approximately $4.75 billion to build the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. My educational background is in physics, but I would not be the least bit upset if a big chunk of public research funding was shifted from physics to CS/ML/AI. It’s obviously far more important to the future of humanity than finding the Higgs boson.