> Almost every single advancement in any field has come from Academia
This sounds like you need far more evidence. If you say academia as the institution where you share papers, sure but then that’s just a sharing mechanism. Almost like saying all advancements came out of Internet because arxiv is where research is shared.
If you want to say professors and Universities have been heralding AI advancement, that has not been true for at least 10 years possibly more. Moment industry started getting into Academia, Academia couldn’t compete and died out. Even Transformers the founding paper of the modern GPT architectures came out of Google Research. In Vision, ResNet, MaskRCNN to Segment Anything came out of Meta / MIcrosoft. The last great academic invention might have been dropout and even that involved Apple. After that I fail to see Academia coming up with a single invention in ML that the rest of the community instantly adopted because of how good it was.
This sounds like you need far more evidence. If you say academia as the institution where you share papers, sure but then that’s just a sharing mechanism. Almost like saying all advancements came out of Internet because arxiv is where research is shared.
If you want to say professors and Universities have been heralding AI advancement, that has not been true for at least 10 years possibly more. Moment industry started getting into Academia, Academia couldn’t compete and died out. Even Transformers the founding paper of the modern GPT architectures came out of Google Research. In Vision, ResNet, MaskRCNN to Segment Anything came out of Meta / MIcrosoft. The last great academic invention might have been dropout and even that involved Apple. After that I fail to see Academia coming up with a single invention in ML that the rest of the community instantly adopted because of how good it was.