Chilling insight from a colleague: current tech founders in AI space are relatively altruistic, but as field matures the business CEOs will take over and make it way more profit-oriented. Happened in several other fields. This might be the friendly good old days of AI.
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I'm starting to think that R&D must be "subsidized" by something besides financial motive. Whether that's "scientists + engineers taking below-market wages or spending their own savings to build a cool thing" or "taxpayer dollars" or "investors who want the cool thing to exist".
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or "executives at large firms who want the cool thing to exist"
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