Most of deepminds additional funding goes into paying higher salaries.
Those higher salaries don't result in better research results - but merely as a way to move the most prolific researchers from other institutions to them...
Arguably this extra funding isn't leading to many new discoveries, but just shifting where discoveries are made.
> Arguably this extra funding isn't leading to many new discoveries, but just shifting where discoveries are made.
Concentrating all these prolific researchers in one place, removing the publish-or-perish incentive, and giving them access to unlimited data and computing power.
The additional funding raises the market price of researchers. That nudges the market to produce more researchers. The marginal quant became an AI researcher because people respond to incentives[1]. This leads to more new discoveries[2].
[1] Standard caveats apply and the point stands.
[2] Standard caveats apply and the point stands.
Lol yes, you can tell I'm just so done talking about anything vaguely statistical to people who spend half their working lives thinking about edge cases.
Those higher salaries don't result in better research results - but merely as a way to move the most prolific researchers from other institutions to them...
Arguably this extra funding isn't leading to many new discoveries, but just shifting where discoveries are made.