AAAI expresses skepticism
2025-03-22 18:42:03.778151+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Turns out there's skepticism in at least one AI community about making your bullshit machines even more bullshitty, that scaling up text and image generation probably isn't an actual path forward. But the dancing bear sure is impressive, for a bear dancing.
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However, we also wanted to include the opinion of the entire AAAI community, so we launched an extensive survey on the topics of the study, which engaged 475 respondents, of which about 20% were students. Among the respondents, academia was given as the main affiliation (67%), followed by corporate research environment (19%). Geographically, the most represented areas are North America (53%), Asia (20%), and Europe (19%) . While the vast majority of the respondents listed AI as one of their primary fields of study, there were also mentions of other fields, such as neuroscience, medicine, biology, sociology, philosophy, political science, and economics. This multi-field involvement was also reflected in an interest in multi-disciplinary research from 95% of the respondents.