it's easier to get AI vaporware funded than to get language programs fundedhttps://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1076190850651164674 …
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I got to talk to a DARPA person a few years back; their big AI push at the time was building systems that could analyze academic publications in IR, etc., and draw inferable conclusions from them about how the world worked.
Either I or someone else asked: couldn't you just, like, fund academic work, and ask the academics what it all means? No, no, that's absurd. We need a computer program that can read the work, we can't actually just fund the work itself, or talk to people.
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I laughed, I cried
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It's DARPA's mission to go far beyond what can be done today. Back in the day, I pitched a project to them. Sounds like they are totally taken with AI and maybe far too impressed with Silicon Valley. Anyhow, my project didn't get funded, but what they were doing made more sense.
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I actually think the government should make high-risk bets. I'm not sure that the corpus of academic IR has much to say about how the world works.
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except for the bits I wrote and the bits written by people who agree with me
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I think AI is largely garbage, and I'm sorry so many resources are going into it. And yes - reading academic IR is not the first task I would put to it.
@sfiscience, for a while, was trying to bring IR together with its complexity approaches. -
on the other hand, given how much I loathed comps, maybe feeding academic IR to an AI is the best way to defeat Skynet, via induced suicide
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That it was an odd project seems kind of obvious. What was interesting to me is that it was strange on several very distinctly different levels — seemed like several misunderstandings were required to take place simultaneously to get such a thing funded. But what do I know.
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I love the faith in academic IR I would probably...not have funded that project
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