alt Hacker NewsWelcome to publications involving ML in 2026... Glad to see someone else write this though because it's important to start having these discussions. Too much overselling has been happening for too long. There is so much great about ML. IMO it hurts the field long-term to continue overselling claims like this.
In my field (biology+ML) it is a genuine epidemic. You could make a career out of comparing high-profile ML models vs baselines from the 90s.
edit: lo and behold! https://x.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/2117446822855888956
I think the reviews are flawed for most of journals. But I can't really blame them, there is huge influx of new papers comming everyday. Unfortunately reviewers are more biased towards groundbreaking stuff so it seems they can't make connections with existing and prior work.
They are also biased to see from what institution you come from..