PhD Students Warn AI Era Is Shrinking Research Horizons

A PhD student laments that research vision has narrowed to the next paper, benchmark, or hype cycle, citing this year's physics Nobel laureates whose IceCube concept took 38 years to win, sparking debate on short-termism in AI-era research.

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