We could do that. But generally businesses are better at allocating capital than government, and less and less research is funded by government these days so I don't think the government has a strong track record.
Seems like eradicating disease and illness worldwide is a pretty strategic concern for humanity.
I guess it’s like climate change. We can’t beat our neighbors by solving it so who cares, but these feel like things our species is really gonna have to start solving. But maybe we won’t and we will just make life unnecessarily hard for most human beings, when we could be stopping climate change and eradicating AIDS.
As a human being, I totally get you. We should be doing much better than this. But, realistically, governments are responsible to their electorates only. As for the global humanity, first question is who's going to foot the bill and imagine global powers today coming to a consensus on that?!
I wonder if Google does something to detect fake Android reviews or coordinated review bombing? It seems to me, at least anecdotally, that they don't have effective mechanisms for this.
Tensorflow has been falling behind since they stopped caring about backward compatibility. PyTorch is the leading framework. Jax is getting some traction at Google and was used to train Gemini.
