“Competition breeds innovation”

American capitalists are fans of inbreeding...

UWA wont put up with any competition

It has less to do with "oligarchs" and more to do with protectionism over domestic industry: retain jobs in America, preserve worker income taxes revenue, capture taxation of corporate profits, tilt the scales in favour of an American business becoming a global exporter of their products, keep development of high-tech assets under American regulatory control.

Last I checked ASU does, and I’m certain many other universities do too.

Skimming it I get this incredible sci-fi feeling of AI being the thing that solves P vs. NP (the diagrams are reminiscent of boolean/arithmetic circuits which have produced some results in the compcomp space)

It’s basically drug dealing. Which is fine if you’re doing it for fun, but doing it to make money develops the most antisocial parts of a person

It has been a priority, but only for a certain group of citizens (which only briefly became unfashionable to legislate for explicitly)

In some companies, “one of your coworkers” have the skills to create & improve upon AI models themselves. Honestly at staff level I’d expect you to be able to do a literature review and start proposing architecture improvements within a year.

Charitably, it just sounds like you aren’t in tech.

The image is a byproduct in autonomous driving. Successful implementations (Waymo) use lidar, which doesn’t need focal adjustments. If for some reason quality RGB pixels are needed (e.g. for entity recognition) then they will probably focus on moving objects. This paper ties in nicely with lidar since it apparently needs depth information to work which is exactly what lidar provides

Oh, to be a spider eating 2.4 million midges

I think you have more fundamental problems if you’re not capable of not taking people at their word at that point