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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by Fomite on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:50PM (#18738103)
"Collaboration and access to great minds" comes from influence. As does the opportunity to shape postdocs and graduate students - the generation of future faculty you're talking about.
Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by mav3rick on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:44PM (#18738344)
The influence is no good if the research isn't high quality. There are other initiatives besides labs by Google.
Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by Fomite on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:20AM (#18745373)
You make the huge assumption that only elite institutions produce high quality research. Especially for narrow specialties, this isn't necessarily true either.