Blogger argues 'AI researcher' will look like an odd job in hindsight
akbirthko · x · 2026-11-15
akbirthko argues that "AI researcher" will seem like an odd notion in hindsight: it treats AI as a special thing you research for its own sake, when the real ends lie outside computers, in the relationship between big compute and the domains where value actually lives.
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