I think the coming years are going to be a bitter reality check for the trend-followers among us — especially those who blew up their entire research programs to get involved in the waning end of an AI boom.
The damage to Universities caused by the top-down “AI / Data Science Only” strategy, which has seen the evisceration of mathematics, fundamental science. and the Humanities, may be irreversible in the foreseeable funding climate. What takes decades to put together can be dismantled in a matter of a couple years.
Jon Sterling
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