B: Oh ok. I guess they must be the mathematician or physicist type then. That would be *so* in character! A: No, they don't really have any strong math background either
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Deep learning maximalism: a dialogue A: So these guys are very confident that they will develop superhuman AI within a few years B: Cute, I guess that neuropsychology degree is really paying off for them A: No, no, they don't have any background in neuroscience or psychology
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B: Oh. Well, it's not like you really need a PhD in any of these fields, you could just read a lot of books and papers, and catch up... A: No, here's the thing: they don't read books. Not even AI/ML books. They only read ArXiv preprints B: ... A: ...are you getting it now?
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The moral of this story is this: if you set out to solve ambitious problems, what you need most isn't "billions of dollars in funding", you need an attitude of doubt & perpetual learning. You need to read books. You can't be supremely confident in the things you think you know.
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Especially if you happen to know nothing and to be horribly wrong in your key assumptions. Being ignorant and wrong isn't the end! It could be the beginning. But if you don't read and if you display absolute intellectual arrogance, your journey is already over before it started.
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I hate how right this is
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If thet use the awesome book written by you both of them will get into DL
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This is highly highly relatable ......Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Who exactly are “these guys” that person A is referring to? Computer scientists? AI bloggers? Techies? I’m not sure who this post is supposed to be about.
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OpenAI et al. There are many Agile approaches & fundamental approaches are antagonistic You can have:
constant progress & diminishing returns in a paradigm
or paradigm shifts & breakthroughs
But not both
Former: industry 
Latter: academia 
Both: Titanic 
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