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The Case for More Ambition - Jack Morris

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This is the pitch made by Richard Hamming in his famous talk You and Your Research. It’s been nearly forty years since the talk was first given and yet it feels like more people are ignoring this advice than ever before. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This may be especially true in AI. Our field is full of brilliant people – researchers, engineers, scientists. Students are flocking to major in computer science and learn about the technology from an early age. More people are applying to graduate school than ever before. The AI labs are raising money and publishing all sorts of findings in preprints and blog posts. And yet it doesn’t feel like the actual science is progressing faster than it was five years ago. We’re publishing more papers than ever, but discovering about the same amount. I don’t think it’s a talent issue, and it’s certainly not a funding issue. I think we have an ambition issue. This year there were over 25,000 papers s

The Case for More Ambition why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less Jack Morris Jun 09, 2025 51 9 6 Share What are the most important problems in your field? And why aren’t you working on them? This is the pitch made by Richard Hamming in his famous talk You and Your Research. It’s been nearly forty years since the talk was first given and yet it feels like more people are ignoring this advice than ever before. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe This may be especially true in AI. Our field is full of brilliant people – rese

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