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It just keeps going (jlai.lu)

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[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 114 points 3 months ago

Yann LeCunn is, in a very real sense, a prime example of everything that is wrong with AI research.

And still he has a thousand times the integrity of the rat.

[-] ElCanut@jlai.lu 39 points 3 months ago

Could you please elaborate on that ? I've never heard of this

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 3 months ago

There’s some serious bad blood in the AI academic world between the old farts that toiled thanklessly all through the thirty years of the AI winter, proving all sorts of fundamental theorems, only to get steam rolled by (relative) newcomers with big tech backing the very second tech started catching up to the math. Things got pretty heated with accusations of academic malpractice, and generic assholery.

Yann is one of the main participants in this drama. The other is a Swiss professor that is about equally friendly.

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 months ago

wow it's just assholes all day 'round in ai land

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 months ago

And you should see the assholes that the uncensored image generators contribute!

[-] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Who's the swiss prof?

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber

Note how the titles of his recent papers are all “ is a special case of <thing I published in the 90s>”

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

I like this part very much:

The term "schmidhubered" has been jokingly used in the AI community to describe Schmidhuber's habit of publicly challenging the originality of other researchers' work, a practice seen by some in the AI community as a "rite of passage" for young researchers. Some suggest that Schmidhuber's significant accomplishments have been underappreciated due to his confrontational personality.