Evil_Patriarch t1_ir64309 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 4:42 PM

Any comparisons available for how an increase in paper publications translates to an increase in new tech actually reaching the market?

whenhaveiever t1_ir6ndm2 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 6:46 PM

That's what I'm wondering. How much of this is actual useful research that advances the field and how much is sociologists plugging things into Dall-E and having opinions about the results?

But also, there's no possible way for any human to keep up with 4000 new papers per month. We almost need AI to read the AI papers and tell us what the good ones are.

MercuriusExMachina t1_ir6wnx0 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 7:44 PM

Exactly. The bitter lesson would seem to indicate that compute is the determining factor, not algorithmic innovation.

But it's good to see that research is keeping up with compute.

zero_for_effort t1_ir7rs4z wrote on October 5, 2022 at 11:17 PM

Can someone point me to these sociology articles about Dall-e or is this a facetious comment?

whenhaveiever t1_ir83saf wrote on October 6, 2022 at 12:56 AM

Yeah, it's partly facetious. The thing I had in mind was the apoploe vesrreaitais guy who isn't a sociologist now that I look it up.

Kaarssteun t1_ir6a3ru wrote on October 5, 2022 at 5:21 PM

Logic tells us more people working on something = faster progress

Xstream3 t1_ir6qc74 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 7:05 PM

Since its software its extremely easy to bring to market (relative to physical products).