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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'::"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The private sector can’t afford that shit. RCA famously tried

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The RCA story is really interesting. Technology Connections has a video on it.

I'm not sure it's fair to say that they couldn't afford it, but they couldn't afford undirected research.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if they hadn’t gambled it all away on Videodisc, RCA would have eventually been gutted by venture capital and then the brand sold to a cheap electronics manufacturer anyway.