Industry is going to have to be careful not to eat their seed corn. There won’t be high quality candidates for the next round of hires if they remove the best professors from circulation.
(If someone can provide broader context on https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2017/08/29/professor-computer-sc... and http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N28/tenure.html, I would be grateful.)
1) their are no conflicts of interest in relation to IP. 2) it's cheaper. Companies that give money for grants are bombarded with overhead costs where a large percentage of funds go nowhere near the intended project the grant was given for.(I forget the name and it varies by school) 3) Kids are payed better( non slave wages) 4) Professors get to work with large amounts of data
What usually happens is that do their time,work with the data they always dreamed of, realize what they are doing, are happy or not happy get bored /pissed off,come back and teach.
The entire academia system in the United States is so fucked behind belief, I really have no sympathy having been their myself.
It's a tragedy of the commons, yes, but traditionally we've used government to handle these. Would that be desirable here? What form would it take, even?
An AI winter because the current state of the art is valuable and applicable enough