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It just keeps going (jlai.lu)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Could you please elaborate on that ? I've never heard of this

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There’s some serious bad blood in the AI academic world between the old farts that toiled thanklessly all through the thirty years of the AI winter, proving all sorts of fundamental theorems, only to get steam rolled by (relative) newcomers with big tech backing the very second tech started catching up to the math. Things got pretty heated with accusations of academic malpractice, and generic assholery.

Yann is one of the main participants in this drama. The other is a Swiss professor that is about equally friendly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

wow it's just assholes all day 'round in ai land

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

And you should see the assholes that the uncensored image generators contribute!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Who's the swiss prof?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber

Note how the titles of his recent papers are all “ is a special case of <thing I published in the 90s>”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I like this part very much:

The term "schmidhubered" has been jokingly used in the AI community to describe Schmidhuber's habit of publicly challenging the originality of other researchers' work, a practice seen by some in the AI community as a "rite of passage" for young researchers. Some suggest that Schmidhuber's significant accomplishments have been underappreciated due to his confrontational personality.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 52 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

One thing you should know about him is that he is self reported to have a really good twitter game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Well I would if I had it

[–] hellofriend 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ehh, self reports are unreliable. Get me an objective study and then we'll talk