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> it is incredibly anodyne I don't get why anyone is surprised that Google doesn't want a paper saying ‘we should spend less money on ML’ published under their
by Veedrac 6y ago
> it is incredibly anodyne
I don't get why anyone is surprised that Google doesn't want a paper saying ‘we should spend less money on ML’ published under their name, when the whole company is ML driven and pushing for growth there.
What other large company would allow that sort of thing?
- contemporary343 6y agoI'm not sure where you get 'we should spend less money on ML' from the abstract. If anything it suggests investing more in ML, from data curation to architecture development, that would be perfectly within Google's general aim to convey itself as being thoughtful about how to use the capabilities they're developing.
- Veedrac 6y ago> We end with recommendations including weighing the environmental and financial costs first ‘Train for less time,’ > investing resources into curating and carefully documenting datasets rather than ingesting everything on the web ‘on less data,’ > carrying out pre-development exercises evaluating how the planned approach [...] supports stakeholder values ‘while spending less’ > and encouraging research directions beyond ever larger language models ‘on smaller models.’
- pseudalopex 6y agoChoosing worthwhile projects doesn't mean spending less.