The 2013 grumpy blog on Zuckerberg invading NIPS—every worry came true
iskander · x · 2026-09-09
The author resurfaces a 13-year-old blog post he co-wrote with Sergey Feldman about Mark Zuckerberg showing up at NIPS 2013 with armed guards for a Q&A. At the time, corporate employees engaged with the conference as academics on equal footing; a CEO's entourage shattered that dynamic. The authors reflect: everything they worried about happened almost immediately, yet the field also made previously unimaginable progress—a vivid artifact of AI academia's commercialization era.
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