[D] Is the standard path of a researcher not effective anymore?

Hello All!


I am currently a master's student. I want to work as an AI researcher, so the typical path I know of is pursuing a Ph.D. and then trying to join a respected research lab.


However, I have stumbled upon a couple of discussions in blog posts, Twitter, and in this subreddit suggesting that the current progress of those labs is more engineering than science; most current research papers, including ones at top conferences, aim at the incremental improvement …

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