Professor shares 'shocking' ChatGPT graph on academia vs industry gap
asusarla · x · 2026-10-18
A repost chain: someone asked ChatGPT to illustrate the gap between academia and industry, captioned "at this rate, the children of junior faculty might get their YCs before their parents get their R01s."
The reposter (Caltech professor Colin Camerer) calls the graph "shocking." An AI-circle self-deprecating meme about academia being left behind by the AI/startup economy — the substance lives in the image.
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