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randomImmigrantyesterday at 10:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

What the blogificafion of AI research has done is allowed all kinds of claims and terminology related to AI to be introduced and taken up in a manner replicating social media dynamics. And that is simply not healthy. We’re fast reaching a place where any claim can be backed up with a set of numbers from a number of experiments run in some gamified environment or the other, with little concern for if it all adds up to anything. It’s a vicious loop, because this same junk then goes in to train the next models which help spit out the next set of models AND blogs/papers. The net effect is not dissimilar to setting termites loose in a library.


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fultonnyesterday at 11:31 PM

> We’re fast reaching...

We already arrived at that destination a decade ago.

Probably even further back tbh.

There's just a lot more people playing the game now, without the social indoctrination that made it more tolerable in some circles.

It's not that bad, though. September is annoying but you kind of miss the eternal renewal once you're out.

gowldyesterday at 10:09 PM

How is that different from traditional research publication? It's faster?

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