Researchers push back on "frontier labs only" pessimism about basic research
dejavucoder · x · 2026-09-28
DimitrisPapail criticized a prevalent AI-community attitude: the idea that important work can only happen inside frontier labs with 10k+ GPUs, so everyone else shouldn't bother. He called this pessimism about basic research one of the worst forms of brainrot AI has cultivated — a bleak and false view of science. dejavucoder followed up asking for concrete arguments.
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