>"If it was a high-return fruit somebody would be doing it." Not necessarily.
With high likelihood given current funding of ML with $$$ applications but yes, not necessarily.
> AI benchmarcks are what direct progress in AI
Sadly this is largely true.
The AI benchmarks + culture around it are the bullshit.
What actually moves forward the field of AI is:
- accessible
- reproducible
- comprehensible
results done with some thought and reasoning which is explained well, published well, and justified by more than some #$!& "our F1 score went up by 2 therefore our approach makes sense" bullshit.
AI benchmarks have done as much to retard progress in AI as they have to promote it.
Current AI benchmark top scores are gamification for big companies to waste even more resources running algorithms they can't explain. They are not machine learning, they are machine pissing contests.
> AI benchmarcks are what direct progress in AI
Sadly this is largely true.
The AI benchmarks + culture around it are the bullshit.
What actually moves forward the field of AI is:
- accessible
- reproducible
- comprehensible
results done with some thought and reasoning which is explained well, published well, and justified by more than some #$!& "our F1 score went up by 2 therefore our approach makes sense" bullshit.
AI benchmarks have done as much to retard progress in AI as they have to promote it.
Current AI benchmark top scores are gamification for big companies to waste even more resources running algorithms they can't explain. They are not machine learning, they are machine pissing contests.