1. What is the Vector Institute? Is a foundation? Is it a not-for-profit corporation? Something else?<p>2. Who controls it? The government (which has put in most of the announced funding)? The University of Toronto? Google? A combination of all of those?<p>3. Who will own the work created by the Institute? How will it be licensed, and what rules will govern its publication?<p>These are questions that would be answered at a very early stage of an ordinary research partnership between a public university and a corporation, but I can find none of these details about Vector.
I am seeing a lot of investments and MASSIVE promised commitments by a lot of people/company. Is all this money going towards paying experts/ buying equipments ? Don't get me wrong, I like seeing all this money being poured in. It's just that i'm curious as to how this money is being used.<p>Tangentially, do you think any of this will trickle down to people who are trying to learn math/ML in the form of scholarships?
"Posted by Geoffrey Hinton" it may be, but "authored by Geoffrey Hinton" if there's any truth to it at all must surely be true only in the most superficial and technical sense.
With all the marketing speak in that piece it's completely alien to Hinton and very much in line with coming out of some corporate spin department.<p>Looking beyond the presentation though, I find this an interesting and important development for the field. I'm inclined to think there are plenty of valuable researchers who will work for the vector institute in Toronto who would not have gone to work for Google Brain in the SF Bay area.
Soo much money being thrown behind a methodology/philosophy that is potentially on its last legs....<p>So many bets being placed on gift horses hoping for a high return. So little efforts looking and/or thinking beyond a narrow box.<p>So much disruption potential outside of mainstream currents.<p>And to think.. All one needs is a computer and an idea.<p>What unfolds in the times ahead is going to be one for the history books.