Academics can’t put themselves on a pedestal for being revolutionaries who care about the ultimate truth the most and at the same time whine when an advance comes along.
These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time.
And people will build the next GPT or whatever and even that’ll get boring. The people in big tech have to pivot and do whatever the economy demands. Whereas the academics can go back to writing papers like nothing changed.
These CS academics need to understand that this is what it feels like to be in other fields like physics or bio where you can’t do jack unless you have costly equipment. This is what people in developing countries deal with all the time.
And people will build the next GPT or whatever and even that’ll get boring. The people in big tech have to pivot and do whatever the economy demands. Whereas the academics can go back to writing papers like nothing changed.