Easy take: calling linear algebra “quantum physics” and “artificial intelligence” is hype. Deeper: the huge influx of physicists into AI has produced an intellectual monoculture that isn’t capable of addressing key problems in the field.https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1181437300414275584 …
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To your original point about monoculture: in each case, some determined exploration seems good. Taking over the field is bad. Funny: systemic positive feedback effects mean that directions seem to be either greatly underexplored or overexplored.
(By which I mean: ideas languish for a long time, with just one or two people interested. Then a program offficer starts to fund and promote, universities start to hire, students are trained, and you get an intellectual bubble/fashion. No mechanism for a good equilibrium.)
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Yes, this is a malign dynamic. Five years ago I seriously considered pursuing funding for an anti-AI lab that would do the control experiments that the deep learning people avoid, thereby (probably) helping the field avoid going off the deep end (so to speak)!
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Skepticism keeps a field healthy, and it's conspicuously lacking here. I hoped some funder would recognize the value of that.
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