AI will accelerate greatly the survivorship bias crisis we have already seen. Because there are so many more reasons to reject an AI-driven result.
The distribution chart, which I assume was pre-AI, is really scary. It implies that 85-90% of results are never published. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
staunton•8mo ago
So what's the point? Riding the neural network hype?
logtempo•8mo ago
But the results and use cases seems to be legit to me. Agin, I'm not an expert on computer science and quantum physics.
ktallett•8mo ago
(Plus yes, I expect funding was easy to get because of AI)
gus_massa•8mo ago
tanderson92•8mo ago
What is more amazing is that they have conned their way into the funding agency priorities and have broadly affected hiring at universities.
staunton•8mo ago
Don't know if it's been used for anything practical yet but modeling dynamical systems which you only partially know by making use of data sounds useful.