Prime Intellect's Will Brown and Susan Zhang warn that AI labs dismissively undervalue critical data engineering work

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Zhang says some labs treat "just data work" as a slur.

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@willccbb Can confirm. Also another problem with working on data is that it’s harder to tell memorable stories about it. ‘We tried 1000 ablations and found that question filtering works while answer filtering does not’ is not as exciting a story compared to ‘we invented a new RL algorithm’

Ari Morcos ✈️ ICML@arimorcosTECH

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will brown@willccbbTECH

every 2 months there's some big post that's like "what if someone worked on data why is no one doing this" and then everyone that works on data is like "we're working on data btw actually". it's fun i like it

Susan Zhang