[stathibus]

I hope a positive outcome of this will be that universities direct more of their research effort toward efficiency of network architectures and/or understandability.

[ml_hardware]

Unfortunately it will be hard to investigate properties of large, powerful neural networks without access to their trained weights. And industrial labs that spend millions of dollars training them will not be keen to share.

If academics want to do research on expensive cutting-edge tech, they will have to join industrial labs or pool together resources, similar to particle physics or drug discovery research today.