You've absolutely nailed it here, I agree. To make any progress at all at the tremendously difficult problem they are trying to solve, they need to be frank about just how far away they are from what it is they are marketing.
I am whole-heartedly in support of commercial interests to drum of awareness and engagement by the authors. This is definitely a cool thing to be working on, however, what does make more sense is to frame the situation more honestly and attract folks to the desire of solving tremendously hard problems based on a level of expertise and awareness that truly moves the ball forward.
What would be far more interesting would be for the folks involved to say all the ten thousand things that went wrong in their experiments and to lay out the common-sense conclusions from those findings (just like the one you shared, which is truly insightful and correct).
We need to move past this industry and their enablers that continually try to win using the wrong methodology -- pushing away the most inventive and innovative people that are ripe and ready to make paradigm shifts in the AI field and industry.
I am whole-heartedly in support of commercial interests to drum of awareness and engagement by the authors. This is definitely a cool thing to be working on, however, what does make more sense is to frame the situation more honestly and attract folks to the desire of solving tremendously hard problems based on a level of expertise and awareness that truly moves the ball forward.
What would be far more interesting would be for the folks involved to say all the ten thousand things that went wrong in their experiments and to lay out the common-sense conclusions from those findings (just like the one you shared, which is truly insightful and correct).
We need to move past this industry and their enablers that continually try to win using the wrong methodology -- pushing away the most inventive and innovative people that are ripe and ready to make paradigm shifts in the AI field and industry.