academia

“And I think that the theory we have is that that's because you kind of, you know, industry is very good at a kind of a depth search, right? Like, you know, continuing to iterate on something. But when you need to go back and fundamentally rethink how you do so…”

“The tipping point occurred late last year when the work being done by corporate entities, which have a profit motive, became more important than the work that was being done by academia.”

“If I go back to when I started, you know, doing this in the, you know, early eighties, that I think in academia, it was somewhat frowned upon. Of getting involved with very translational work and applied work in companies. And I don't think that that's, and I …”

“Academia, it's allowing you to do more experimentation. It's set for that. And at Berkeley, we are in a privileged position. Of course, being close to the Silicon Valley, we have a lot of feedback. From the industry. So we are very anchored in what are the rea…”

“But for people in academia who have more time than money, they're getting completely frozen out of research. You can't do it. There's not enough money in all of academia to participate anymore in AI research”

“The other one that I thought was a huge omission is there's basically no real mention of academia, investing in academia. Like there's, you know, some oblique references to it, but it's just been such a mainstay of innovation, computer science. Of the last 40 …”

“But nobody was saying anything. You know, it's like academia was silent. The startups were silent. And if anything, like, The technologists were kind of supporting it.”