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> Is Google's AI research about to implode? No. (For reference see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Is Google's AI research about to implode?
No. (For reference see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)
Seriously though - even if the points in the article were true, none of them imply any kind of implosion or significant disruption in Google's research.
> Maybe one day we will see the transition from Hinton (ways of representing complex data in a neural network) to Gebru (accountable representation of those data sets) in the same way as we see the transition from Newton to Einstein.
This is so loaded and gives Gebru so much undeserved credit that it undermines that author's credibility.
- timkam 6y agoI don't think it's about whether Gebru "deserves" the credit, it's just a bad comparison on so many levels. Roughly like: "the transition from Ronaldo to Magnus Carlsen may be seen in the same way as we see the transition from Pelé to Lebron James". I also think it would be fair to speak in terms of communities and not of individuals, at least in modern science.
- slt2021 6y agocomparing Gebru to Hinton, wow... the woke crowd totally out of touch with reality