Researcher echoes Mariya's critique: AI research is losing curiosity-driven work, offers open collaboration
mariyaivasileva · x · 2026-10-18
getdarshan strongly resonated with Mariya Ivasileva's essay on AI research culture, saying people have lost the curiosity that drives novel research — "who thinks about neural nets with complex tensors and their optimizations? alternating FFT patterns for steganography?" He admits being part of the problem and extends an open offer to collaborate on genuinely out-of-the-box research.
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