What one wants is to be able to talk with a diverse club of smart peo­ple, arrange to do short one-​​off research projects and sim­u­la­tions, pub­lish papers or cap­ture intel­lec­tual prop­erty quickly and eas­ily, and move on to another con­ver­sa­tion. Quickly. Eas­ily. For a liv­ing. Can’t do that in indus­try. Can’t do that in the Acad­emy. Y

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That’s not to say that Hype doesn’t impact public perception of science experiments. AI was famously always “ten years away” and “just linear regressions with a fancy name”... until it wasn’t. But AI’s success didn’t depend on getting a lot of people to use not-yet-good-enough chatbots; it depended on keeping a relatively small number of nerds exci... See more