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Deepmind has an unfortunate history of publishing in Nature for the prestige. Maybe because Hassabis was a neuroscientist and acquired that bad habit. But does
by zerostar07 8y ago
Deepmind has an unfortunate history of publishing in Nature for the prestige. Maybe because Hassabis was a neuroscientist and acquired that bad habit. But does it matter in the CS/ML world? I think it doesn't, because a number of people have done it with papers that range very widely in significance (e.g. this is much less significant than the original deep q learning paper that was also in nature iirc)
- naturalgradient 8y agoFrom my observation (from knowing a few people there from my lab), DeepMind is still organised relatively similarly to university groups. Professors moving over are made to lead research teams, and while there may be some overall organisation goals, researchers still care about their individual career advancement and prestige as measured by paper output. So individually, most people working there are incentivised towards doing what is best for their individual prestige in the research community for after leaving deepmind.
- chriskanan 8y agoWhile it doesn't matter that much to machine learning folks, Nature papers are a huge flag to take the work seriously for journalists, science enthusiasts, and researchers outside of computer science. DeepMind's ICLR and NIPS papers receive much less media attention than their Nature papers.