Definitely agree with the part about education and getting kids to learn!
Not sure about the comparison with beta-amyloid though. There are good reasons to think it is involved with Alzheimer's - genetics, histology, etc.
And I don't think many researchers thought that would be the problem solved. It was just a very logical target in tackling a very challenging disease (like all neurodegenerative diseases, basically none of which are cured).
This field is moving really fast right now, and so it's a little hard to keep track of all 'AI'. I'd recommend finding some researchers in the subfield of AI you're most interested in and following them on Twitter
I would love for people to work on open science. I think it's near criminal that tax-payer funded science sits behind paywalls.
It's gradually changing, but the publishing companies make an extraordinary amount of money by acting as a bogus distribution system. They've managed to sit between academics and readers and charge both sides for doing nothing.
That being said, this isn't so much a tooling problem as a social one..
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I don't see how he can turn this around, but kudos for trying and communicating openly about the short term plan.