AI PhD Laments: ICLR Submissions Are Formulaic While Industry Labs Sprint Ahead
vykthur · x · 2026-09-25
An AI PhD, doing ICLR reviewer bidding, notes most submissions recycle the same recipe — swap in a newer video-gen base model and get a new paper — and wonders how many of the 60k submissions were conceived by AI. Meanwhile industry leaves academia behind: World Labs' Atlas has 'basically solved' 4D scenes, and GPT-6 Astra demos wowed with inverse graphics and robot arm manipulation.
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