Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Unless you’re a guard on a chain gang, others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather
For academics, joining industry is an attractive proposition for many reasons: great colleagues, opportunities for massive impact, and excellent compensation.
But it's important to note: academics can not expect to more or less carry on being an academic -though many try
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I get asked a lot: why stay in academia, all the excitement in AI is happening in industry with massive compute. And I am seeing some profs leaving academia, but also seeing lots of researchers in industry looking to go back to academia, especially those who don’t work on LLMs.
I have spent some time and actively working with industry, and it has been a great experience, but for me the answer is simple:
1. Students: Nothing can replace working with really smart & amazing students.
2. Academic freedom: In general, industry will one way or another dictate what you should work on. Today it is LLMs, tomorrow it is something else. The good old days of "here is a cool idea, let me investigate and publish" are pretty much over. But as an academic, I can work on whatever I want: I can start working on "black holes" tomorrow if I choose to.
3. And my favourite one: No reorgs -- big tech really loves reorgs that happen every few months.
Finally, as an academic, I can always take some time off, work in industry or start-up, and come back if I want to. Going into industry is usually a one-way street: It is far easier to go to industry from academia and much harder the other way around.
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Too late, too less.
Wht our research scholars need is a pay structure that ensures regular increment matching with inflation (like DA), not a random hike in every few years after agitations.
Also, allocation for the running projects shd increase to match the hike.