Artificially clean gives you too many false positives. Most researchers I know these days start on CIFAR10 which is much more real world and has far fewer false

Artificially clean gives you too many false positives. Most researchers I know these days start on CIFAR10 which is much more real world and has far fewer false positive signals. A portion of the hype in CV is a paper showing a technique works on MNIST that then fails to go anywhere on any other dataset.