Accounting for the different cost levels, I wonder how it compares to pharma R&D etc?
AI has many big public companies running huge research labs doing a lot of undirected fundamental research. Unprecedented, AFAIK.
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Tiny in absolute terms - I doubt corporate AI breaks 10 figures for the fundamental research part.
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You might say they're doing a great job of... immonetizing the eschaton.
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Sounds like quite a Singular event...
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Bell labs?
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Bell Labs was a company. Not 20 huge companies.
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@fchollet Xerox, AT&T, IBM, Intel, HP all the big chemical cos - used to be std practice -
They all did totally different things, at very different times. Not 20 bigCos doing undirected fund. research simultaneously on same thing.
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Is it that different from physicists at Intel/IBM? In both cases (semiconds and AI), some (not all) undirected, but also broad goal in mind.
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Yes - there are far more than two companies doing it. Google (x 2!). NVIDIA. Apple. Uber. Facebook. Microsoft. Baidu. IBM. Etc.
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