The national research cloud would address a problem that is a byproduct of impressive progress in recent years. called deep learning. So there has been a brain drain of computer scientists from universities to the big tech companies, lured by access to their cloud data centers as well as lucrative pay packages. That was the story with deep learning, which dates to the 1980s. Only since 2012, with enough computing power and data, did deep learning really take off.

Source: New York Times June 30, 2020 09:56 UTC