I was recently at an interdisciplinary meeting (heavily skewed toward, but not exclusively, social science academics) in which easily 85% of the people there said they were working on AI or something related.
The current AI/LLM/AGI/whatever mania seems to have metastasized even more broadly than blockchain did. There are interesting and important problems there, but it seems to have become an intellectual black hole across the academy.
Matt Blaze /
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