Researcher pushes back on "frontier labs only" pessimism about basic research
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-27
Researcher Dimitris Papail calls out what he sees as one of the worst forms of AI brainrot: the belief that important research can only happen inside frontier labs with 10k+ GPUs, so everyone else shouldn't bother. He argues this pessimism about basic research is both bleak and false.
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