This sounds like a loaded question but... Why don't more people who talk about AI $subject (eg, ethics, policy, strategy) actually engage with foundational technical literature? What is the plausible justification for not habitually skimming Arxiv?
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Replying to @jackclarkSF
Because they can do well professionally without. As an ethnographic adventure I went to a conference last year focused on AI, UBI etc. I didn't meet anyone, or see a single speaker, who was engaged w the primary literature on AI. But lots of these ppl speak at Davos, in NYT etc
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See also: https://twitter.com/kristineberth/status/997356628339904514 … It's really interesting, and I'll bet there's a good book in it.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @jackclarkSF
An amusing test reporters could apply: "Oh, before we begin, would you mind quickly writing down the equations describing backprop in, say, a simple feedforward net? Okay if it's a bit rough!" AKA, do you know how any of this works?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @jackclarkSF
Slightly unfair - there are people with interesting things to say who would fail this test. Still, I think the idea has merit, some kind of FizzBuzz for AI "experts".
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
I think I might fail this test, but I think I could explain, say, backprop in a way that made sense to them, then connect that to interesting innovations eg resnets, skip gates, etc, and tie this to progress in image recognition as a whole. (And that feels like it'd be useful)
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It's not meant seriously (though something similar in spirit might be useful). I certainly think you should be talking to reporters! Didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Oh, no, I think it's a really interesting idea and wanted to engage with it honestly! No offense taken
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