Users blame AI companies' focus on foundation models and agents, plus Trump-era science cuts, for starving academic biology and neuroscience labs of grants.
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@ziv_ravid The foundation models AI companies want to fund are arguably not "correct". E.g. nobody wants to fund a foundation model for specific indications (and be actually useful to clinicians), such as addiction, hence people like me would have to apply for endless grants.
@pfau People are obviously still funding the scientists. This is all doomer nonsense. Mismanagement of labor market is a real finding, but this is known for 30 years. People will tell you ways to cope if you ask behind closed doors.
@pfau open ai foundation can fund science but they are too busy doing this non sense https://x.com/99prixels/status/2074833445453431097
@ziv_ravid Because Americans elected Trump. The dramatic cuts to science funding were one of the first things he did in office.
Just talked with a well-respected computational neuroscientist friend. The situation in academia outside CS is sad. Everyone is fighting over a shrinking pool of grants. And it's happening exactly when there's more money in AI than ever. There are so many companies that say they are going to solve diseases. Any researcher at {your favorite frontier lab} can raise millions for a foundation model of biology or the brain, while the people who actually study biology and the brain can't fund their labs.
Traditional scientists cannot afford to buy tools built by AI startups.
@ziv_ravid The foundation models AI companies want to fund are arguably not "correct". E.g. nobody wants to fund a foundation model for specific indications (and be actually useful to clinicians), such as addiction, hence people like me would have to apply for endless grants.
@pfau People are obviously still funding the scientists. This is all doomer nonsense. Mismanagement of labor market is a real finding, but this is known for 30 years. People will tell you ways to cope if you ask behind closed doors.
@pfau open ai foundation can fund science but they are too busy doing this non sense https://x.com/99prixels/status/2074833445453431097
@ziv_ravid Because Americans elected Trump. The dramatic cuts to science funding were one of the first things he did in office.
Just talked with a well-respected computational neuroscientist friend. The situation in academia outside CS is sad. Everyone is fighting over a shrinking pool of grants. And it's happening exactly when there's more money in AI than ever. There are so many companies that say they are going to solve diseases. Any researcher at {your favorite frontier lab} can raise millions for a foundation model of biology or the brain, while the people who actually study biology and the brain can't fund their labs.
Who on earth is going to use all these AI-for-science tools if no one is funding the scientists? https://twitter.com/ziv_ravid/status/2077023338442981492
Users blame AI companies' focus on foundation models and agents, plus Trump-era science cuts, for starving academic biology and neuroscience labs of grants.
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Who on earth is going to use all these AI-for-science tools if no one is funding the scientists? https://twitter.com/ziv_ravid/status/2077023338442981492