For me the questions were a big red flag. Fluff questions about crypto, human rights for AI and then "autocorrect" for AI. Obviously people who ask questions at conference talks are a special type of person but these topics scream to me that there's so many grifters in the AI space right now it might as well drown authentic research.
By now, most of the fundamental contributors are multi-millionaires with cushy contracts. Various labs & departments have their big fat funding for AI research topics. They will be able to spend next 10 years on synthetic data, or "agents", or ensuring that no breasts are in auto-generated images; but somehow it doesn't feel to me like there'll be a lot of fundamental progress.
By now, most of the fundamental contributors are multi-millionaires with cushy contracts. Various labs & departments have their big fat funding for AI research topics. They will be able to spend next 10 years on synthetic data, or "agents", or ensuring that no breasts are in auto-generated images; but somehow it doesn't feel to me like there'll be a lot of fundamental progress.
/remindme 10 years