universities

“Even if we stopped the research pipeline today and said no more research is coming out of the universities, I think we have 20, 3040 years of software development to do to put all the AI inside the apps.”

“I think there is going to be, I think this will maybe be the big upside surprise in the next 20 or 30 years, the bow wave of philanthropy coming out of the high tech community, and coming out of high tech founders and CEOs, and people who have been successful …”

“The really, in my view, the enlightened universities that really think strategically about things like spinoffs, and students and professors taking leave, and so forth, are the ones who realize that the long game here is probably philanthropy as contrasted to,…”

“If you look at, ah, you know, a lot of, ah, innovation Up till, well, to me, re up until recently came from, like, Bell Labs and IBM and Microsoft Research, and that's where a lot of the new, I would say the new commercial ideas came from folks leaving those a…”

“That's why universities are the ideal place to do this kind of work, because society benefits. Universities do technology transfer in a very natural way. It's called graduation.”

“By the way people who got, you know, professors a hundred years ago, like how would they score the PhDs that are being granted today? Would they say, well, the bar is higher? Or would they say the bar is lower? I think they would say the bar is dramatically lo…”

“As these new tech companies have built these big research labs, they have pulled a lot of the good faculty out of the universities. And by the way, that process I think is accelerating in AI specifically because the capital needs to actually do modern AI are s…”

“There is a pretty active campaign in the other direction and, you know, that, that campaign has taken hold of a lot of universities, a lot of government agencies you know, a lot of the power structure of the people who get to decide whether things are legal. T…”

“I think if you lose the student, you're done. That's the end of the whole thing. Like, it doesn't matter what the faculty think. It doesn't matter what the alumni think. It doesn't matter what the donors think. It doesn't matter what anybody thinks. If you're …”

“Turns out that foreign students at universities generally pay full freight.”

“And so the whole government funding process Is incredibly corrupting and bad and massive and drive so much of the research that's done in universities because it's a gigantic, it's like a gusher of cash. So it cannot be resisted, but it's set up in a very horr…”

“Universities rarely, you also have to understand almost never do layoffs. So they only get bigger.”

“I'll just list the three reasons why this would be very difficult. Number one is existing institutions just have very powerful network effects, which is why they, you know, they, they're so, you know, which is why the big ones are like hundreds of years old. T…”

“Universities, you know, historically only were ever built to, you know, train a very small percentage of the eighteen-year-olds, you know, in the world each year.”

“You got to get the main thing done, and anything that compromises a prime directive has got to go and be subordinated, and I think that, you know, in the universities, partly because of just sheer size of them, you know, you have people who have no concern abo…”

“I mean, I'm a little skeptical of that because I do think at least, you know, among a pretty big contingent in the university, it's a religion. It's not a it's not a point of view. It's a belief system that requires faith. And which is why it cannot be argued.…”

“Like, I mean, I think that if you're designing the system from scratch, at least I would probably pay professors much, much more, particularly in fields that are highly competitive, like, you know, computer science or You know, physics are things where like, i…”

“And the adjunct is somebody who is qualified to be a professor, has the PhD and all the equivalent training and so forth. But we're not gonna hire them, you know, almost like the gig workers of the academic field. We're not gonna hire them as full-time employe…”

“When you go talk to universities right now, one point they make is they don't have the compute power to be able to rival Microsoft and OpenAI and these companies”

“Universities obviously directly get federal funding, right? Some of them are literally federal, you know, public colleges but they're very dependent on tax exemptions and so on and so forth that the state grants, and they only exist because of that.”

“I think we have to do better at that, and we have to reward universities that are better at that.”

“Because what we're seeing now is in all the universities, they're all using the Chinese models.”