Dax Shepard
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You're still an adjunct professor.
I'm still an adjunct professor at Stanford.
What is an adjunct professor?
An adjunct professor just means you're affiliated with the university.
It's a credential.
So in my case, there's a dean or even a provost that had to actually sign off on it.
But you're not a tenure line professor.
So professors in today's academic world are largely leading research groups based off of money they get from the government through grants and also through private foundations.
And so as an adjunct, I cannot lead those.
Okay.
I can be on them, and I can participate, and that's largely what I do.
Everyone thinks I teach.
I don't teach.
I lead research.
Okay.
So you'll join an existing grant.
That's right.
And then your professional work was Google Brain and is now Meta.
That's right.
At Google Brain, this was like the early skunk works of the neural networks, and it became deep learning, and now it's called AI.