Omar Khattab, Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL, observes that frontier AI labs closely track academic machine learning releases shared on social media platforms
Replies note one-way engagement and industry's reluctance on high-risk ideas.
@lateinteraction It’s an annoying one-way relationship, especially with some labs.
Omar Khattab@lateinteractionMost people in this part of twitter don’t realize how closely folks at the frontier labs pay attention to all your favorite academic ML releases on here.
(not a complex inference; you can tell just because they always reach out!)
Omar Khattab@lateinteractionMost people in this part of twitter don’t realize how closely folks at the frontier labs pay attention to all your favorite academic ML releases on here.
this is not some complex inference; you can tell just because they always reach out. but it just conflicts with the facade of mystery and secret knowledge that some like to ascribe to the labs lol.
Omar Khattab@lateinteractionMost people in this part of twitter don’t realize how closely folks at the frontier labs pay attention to all your favorite academic ML releases on here.
@lateinteraction Industry is very good at scaling things but it lacks humanpower, resources, and willingness to try a gazillion of often risky ideas.
Omar Khattab@lateinteractionMost people in this part of twitter don’t realize how closely folks at the frontier labs pay attention to all your favorite academic ML releases on here.