Do startups in other fields constantly publish their research?
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
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#22That’s because most of its slop, and not reproducible
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#24All startups barely publish their research, because doing that would be incredibly stupid for the most part, because they want to sell the stuff they invent not give it away for free.
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#25I’m not sure why this is so surprising? AI company does not automatically mean research company. The vast majority of new startups popping up over the last few years have commercial motivations, and use models built by someone else. Why are you expecting them to publish scientific papers?
50% of startups contributing to public research is actually a crazy good outcome. That’s far more than I had expected.
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#26Trade secrets are back, baby!
More to the point, without determining how much work is “worthy” of a paper it is unclear how much this matters.
Most AI companies are either a product and marketing layer over a model or not meaningfully moving any dimension to be worthy of a paper.
Also, formal papers and blogs and “cards” are all being intertwined.
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#27Funny, as ONE PERSON with Claude, I've been on a tear when it comes to publishing my own research:
https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Magarshak%...
So I know that smart people in those companies can definitely publish. In fact, a whole team should probably be publishing like no tomorrow!
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#28What the blogificafion of AI research has done is allowed all kinds of claims and terminology related to AI to be introduced and taken up in a manner replicating social media dynamics. And that is simply not healthy. We’re fast reaching a place where any claim can be backed up with a set of numbers from a number of experiments run in some gamified environment or the other, with little concern for if it all adds up to anything.
It’s a vicious loop, because this same junk then goes in to train the next models which help spit out the next set of models AND blogs/papers.
The net effect is not dissimilar to setting termites loose in a library.
Re: AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
#29That’s because most of its slop, and not reproducible
Live by the non-determinism, die by the non-determinism.
Re: AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
#30What the blogificafion of AI research has done is allowed all kinds of claims and terminology related to AI to be introduced and taken up in a manner replicating social media dynamics. And that is simply not healthy. We’re fast reaching a place where any claim can be backed up with a set of numbers from a number of experiments run in some gamified environment or the other, with little concern for if it all adds up to…
How is that different from traditional research publication? It's faster?