The Curated Internet

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035 There are a lot of suggestions in this paper that I think are helpful In particular, “In-the-wild domains such as games, IoT , and autonomous vehicles could allow AI to be deployed next to their end user and the data the user generates, i.e. at the edge of the network. This is often called edge AI [8], the operation of AI applications in devices of the physical world is possible when memory requirements are low and inference occurs rapidly.” (Togelius and Yannakakis, 2023, p. 4) “Solve Problems Few Care About (For Now!)” (Togelius and Yannakakis, 2023, p. 5) “In academia, failure can be as instructive and valuable as success and the stakes are overall lower. Many important inventions and ideas in AI come from trying the “wrong” thing. In particular, all of deep learning stems from researchers stubbornly working on neural networks even though there were good theoretical reasons why they shouldn’t work.” (Togelius and Yannakakis, 2023, p. ...

  Combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 US-based tenure-track faculty across eight disciplines in STEM, social science and the humanities, we show that faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01425-4

The following blog post is inspired by this article : How ChatGPT is transforming the postdoc experience    Grumpy old man yelling at the clouds here: do not forget that, although boring and unrewarding, tasks such as writing an abstract, writing a review, studying a methods section, or summarizing the main ideas in a scientific text, are important competences in their own rights. Be sure to master them before trying to delegate them to ChatGPT. - https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/203016/is-it-unethical-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-abstracts   Technology is usually supposed to make things easy. But the research shows that real learning requires things to be a little bit hard. - Vox ( AI can do your homework. Now what? )