Ask HN: Opportunity for a New Bell Labs

Hey HN,

I’m a Research Scientist working on various deep learning related topics. It feels to me like ML related hype is dying down, which is a good thing in my opinion.

An interesting trend I’ve seen anecdotally is the increase in research collaborations remotely.

I’ve been discussing with lots of my colleagues and friends across research and engineering, and it feels like there are so many low hanging fruit in bridging the gap between research and application in different ML topics like Meta Learning.

Do you think there is an opportunity for a distributed research organization to build practical useful ML tools that may be commercialized down stream? I feel that people are interested but I don’t know how to lead a group like this.