Togelius resurfaces old essay on what AI researchers can do as big labs steamroll academia
marcosalvi · x · 2026-09-15
AI researcher Julian Togelius, co-author Georgios Yannakakis, revisits an essay they wrote a few years ago about what academic researchers can do when giant AI companies steamroll their research field — and finds it at least as relevant today as when it was written.
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