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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by PaulHoule on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:13PM (#15369267)
Hinton was able to survive 30 years in the academic wilderness. Most academics can't.

Thus they work on "safe" projects.

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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:21AM (#15371707)
It can be done, even today. If you work outside the US and work on cheap things (i.e. no special equipment), especially if you can teach then you can hang around for a long time.

I have met a lot of academics like this over the years, but I think your broader point might be that this is not possible today, which I agree with, and which is why I left academia (modulo personal situations).

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