Zachary Lipton Mocks AI Research: Contorting Results to Fit Trendy Claims
zacharylipton · x · 2026-08-02
AI researcher Zachary Lipton tweeted a satirical view on the history of AI research trends. He noted that in every era, trendy claims become so salient that authors contort their results in bizarre ways just to license a claim of the desired form, such as the recent obsession with wild "scaling laws".
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