endless headlines this calendar year alone have said that machines can read better than people; last week we heard the Google Talk to Books was “astounding.” lots of people way overestimated chatbots. Afraid ‘sensible’ is too small a subset of the people taking about language...https://twitter.com/egrefen/status/988467426248527872 …
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Researchers overclaim ALL THE TIME. You get more press coverage for big companies for obvious reasons, but the overall atmosphere is problematic. Here's one example from a paper I happened to read yesterday. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06585 pic.twitter.com/kRIBz21ObY
Absolutely, researchers overclaim all the time, in papers, talks, and most of all in the press releases sent out by corporate labs and universities. It's only natural that there should be some pushback.
