Hinton now worked for Google; Fei-Fei Li left Stanford for Google; LeCun, for Facebook. Ng left Stanford for Google and then China’s Baidu. Even the top universities like Stanford, Oxford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could barely hold on to their star academics, leaving a vacuum where the next generation of educators was meant to be. AI research became more secretive and more geared toward making money. That’s why Musk and Altman’s push for their research to be open to the public was so refreshing to researchers. Someone was finally addressing the concentration of AI
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