| > If academics are being hired into industry, that frees up grant money to be spent on other areas That's great for those other areas, but the open letter in question is about machine learning. > It doesn't actually 'deplete' academia except in the short run, unless the supply of students who want to do research becomes fully tapped out. ... or the very limited supply of established researchers who can train them is tapped out. Also, "fully tapped out" is a squishy notion; you can always lower your recruitment standards, with obvious consequences. But there is no need to get into hypotheticals here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/big-tech-fir... > people who are trained already can always go into academia or return to Europe But why would they want to? They chose to move away for a reason, so something would have to change for them to change their mind. What would that be? The authors of the open letter seem to think that a European AI hub could be that thing. |