Those groups will become more like high-energy physics or biology research groups where considerable funding is being spent on infrastructure (e.g., equipment and hardware). If this does not happen, publicly funded groups will not be able to compete.
How certain are you about this? Your analogies for extremely costly research are both publicly funded groups, so it wouldn’t seem too surprising to me if governments will start opening their pockets for research into what seems to have similar or greater scientific and public “excitement levels” than physics and biology.
I’m still holding the same view that (a) we will probably see a switch in funding distribution and (b) if this does not happen those groups won’t be able to compete with SOTA models.
we will and should see a switch in funding distribution at publicly funded AI research groups
I would change my mind if we find more evidence towards algorithmic innovation being a stronger or the significant driver.
Some recent updates in regards to providing more funding for infrastructure include The National AI Research Cloud which is currently being investigated by the US government or Compute Canada.
Really nice work, just got to reading it.
How certain are you about this? Your analogies for extremely costly research are both publicly funded groups, so it wouldn’t seem too surprising to me if governments will start opening their pockets for research into what seems to have similar or greater scientific and public “excitement levels” than physics and biology.
I’m still holding the same view that (a) we will probably see a switch in funding distribution and (b) if this does not happen those groups won’t be able to compete with SOTA models.
I would change my mind if we find more evidence towards algorithmic innovation being a stronger or the significant driver.
Some recent updates in regards to providing more funding for infrastructure include The National AI Research Cloud which is currently being investigated by the US government or Compute Canada.
Just realized that I misunderstood the original quote, yes, thanks, this makes total sense.