Some context for people unfamiliar with ML research:
the author, Schmidhuber, is well known for claiming that he should get credit for many ML ideas. Most ML researchers think that:
- He doesn't deserve the credit he claims, in most if not all cases.
- There's a few cases where his papers should have been cited and weren't. That's fairly common.
- People do not get much credit for formulating an abstract idea in a paper or implementing it on a toy problem. Credit belongs to whoever actually makes it work.
- Credit assignment in ML is not perfect but roughly works.
- Gary Marcus
- Juergen Schmidhuber
- Pedro Domingos
- Max Tegmark
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Some context for people unfamiliar with ML research: the author, Schmidhuber, is well known for claiming that he should get credit for many ML ideas. Most ML researchers think that:
- He doesn't deserve the credit he claims, in most if not all cases.
- There's a few cases where his papers should have been cited and weren't. That's fairly common.
- People do not get much credit for formulating an abstract idea in a paper or implementing it on a toy problem. Credit belongs to whoever actually makes it work.
- Credit assignment in ML is not perfect but roughly works.