François CholletVerified account

There's no shortage of important and largely untouched problems in AI. We have no energy to waste on complaining about academic trivialities

What do you care about most: credit assignment for a finding no one will remember in 5 yrs, or building the most important tech of our time

Put differently: shouldn't the research & publication system prioritize *the speed of progress* rather than I would call "academic drama"?

An important point of @yoavgo's post is that MPUs w/ poor eval and overblown claims doesn't speed up progress, and in fact gets in the way.

Furthermore there is little cost to flooding the system. Unlike, say, a mathematician who regularly posts proofs eventually shown incorrect.

It's worth considering whether we, as a community, are doing work that isn't even wrong.https://twitter.com/jasonbaldridge/status/873543431716339712 …

Looks to me that it is precisely academic drama (e.g. the pursuit of citations & credit taking at all costs) that leads to meaningless work

People who post half-baked papers with misleading claims on arxiv to by-pass peer review & be "first" do so because of poor incentives