Sergey Levine on academia: senior AI researchers think they invented every new idea 20 years ago
Francis_YAO_ · x · 2026-10-08
Sergey Levine shares a fun fact about AI academics: the more senior you get, the more convinced you become that every new AI idea is something you invented 20 years ago — or you wait until it works and claim you've been saying it all along.
He recalls a conference where a speaker's research was dismissed mid-presentation by an academic claiming it was his old work. A replier jokes the ideas were probably actually invented in the Victorian era.
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