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Government agencies have been behind in ML/AI for a long time now and they are still playing catch up, yes. But they do fund academia in the ML space, which is very important since industry goes nowhere without the ML PhDs who did their research with DoD funding. And they are ahead of industry in other areas, sensors being one of them.

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Have u seen the work coming out of phd students on dod grants? It's generally poor. There is a lot of grant money from the big tech firms where the slide ts have access to incredible brain and compute resources.

Yes, that's basically all university research. And it probably follows the 80/20 bad/good rule like pretty much everything. Focusing on the 80% and ignoring the 20% is flawed thinking.

Research where large compute resources are required or used is a small part of all research, and a small part of ML and AI research for that matter.

You're just focusing on the positives in industry research and the negatives in university research.

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