Jon Sterling on Nostr: What a stifling environment, in which even practical research/applied research must ...

What a stifling environment, in which even practical research/applied research must always assume some connection with AI. It is taken for granted that “AI has transformed [insert discipline] to be unrecognisable", and all the research proposals have to be about grappling with this “transformation” that has, in most cases that I can see, been mostly fictional or aspirational.

The transformation has not been in the discipline, but in the funding of the discipline.