Need some help from the world of academia...

[Backfromthedead]

Yeah, humanity most likely not to persist long enough, at least in our current form, for this to be an issue. I would expect us to have evolved into some sort of space-faring organism by that point in time, and we would most likely have burned up our planet just fine by ourselves before the sun goes all genocide on us.

 

[Caperguy99]

Still...its a weird title nonetheless lol

I can answer this!

After this dude’s PhD, he probably didn’t get a full-time university professor job right away - since they’re hard to come by. Instead, he went looking for “postdoctoral fellowships” - which are short 1-2 year term positions that allow somebody to work on another research project after their doctoral work is already completed.

Sometimes if a university is lucky, a wealthy benefactor will donate money that helps to fund postdoctoral research. Sometimes they attach stipulations - such as that whoever takes up the postdoc position must be involved with some specific area of research, such as “AI in Science” in this case.

That’s why the official title of the postdoc is the “Eric and Wendy Schmidt . . . Etc.” < They are almost certainly the donors who funded the position, and so get their name attached for the goodwill, and specified the topic that they want to see the award holder work on.

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Have not yet opened any of the links posted. My first thought is from back when a janitor became a sanitation engineer. I do hope this thread evolves into a discussion on AI.