> 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.
I don't know, core physics leading to Fusion reactors and FTL travel seen much more important to me than AI that can make convincing robocalls and generate furry porn stories.
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.