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Highly recommend the recent book Science Fictions by Stuart Richie which discusses in one chapter how scientists often write the press releases themselves and t
by physicsguy 6y ago
Highly recommend the recent book Science Fictions by Stuart Richie which discusses in one chapter how scientists often write the press releases themselves and then the media just copy them almost verbatim. This is obviously a little different because the scientists are working for a company rather than a University, but I think the same thing applies here.
- gspr 6y agoReally? I'm only familiar with university PR people writing them on the scientists' behalf, inducing a lot of cringe on the part of the latter.
- throwaway74453 6y agoThis is very different. DeepMind submitted their solutions to a hidden test set at CASP14, with a known metric and a value that the subfield considered to mean solving protein folding. They cleared the bar with AlphaFold2. This is not a PR stunt by a company trying to spin their meager results.