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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I’ve been skeptical about DL results because 25 years ago I reran the key experiments that were hyped as showing backprop (the underlying tech) was incredible. In each case I found that the researchers were fooling themselves. Not deliberate fraud, but sloppy work.
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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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