[D] Has "AI research lab" become completely meaningless as a term?
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[D] Has "AI research lab" become completely meaningless as a term?.
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Are these all the same thing?
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Because, to use an analogy, it feels like calling both a university biology department and Pfizer "research organizations." This is technically true but kind of useless as a category.
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My working definition has started to be something like: a real AI research lab is primarily organized around pushing the boundaries of what's possible, not around shipping products for mass markets.
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The moment your research agenda is downstream of your product roadmap, you're a tech company with an R&D team, which is fine!
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