AI doesn’t replicate. Having worked in the field, I can usually see why a paper’s result is nonsense, but the public can’t, and many researchers can’t.https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/964612382650646529 …
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There’s a pervasive culture in ML research of competing to prove your method can do magic, instead of trying to understand what’s going on. Systematic failure to ask skeptical questions, or to do the necessary control experiments.
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Would love to hear details about this!
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The only one I wrote up was this one. The then-most-hyped version of RL+backprop turned out to work less well than RL+perceptron. https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/91-2/Papers/018.pdf …
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expectation bias?
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Kinda, but a bit worse. More deliberate. Probably not outright fraud, but a pervasive suspension of disbelief, and a promotion of giddy hope and hype that (I suspect) masks anxiety that it’s mostly smoke and mirrors.
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