A.I.

[BusyBee]

It's easy to be cynical and certainly in industry claims of "AI" are wildly exaggerated, but in peer-reviewed academia it's very difficult to hide if you're bluffing!

I was not in this field so cannot comment well on AI but in the field I was in I did notice at times much fighting amongst front runners for the honours. In limited fields it does seem to me to be fairly easy to steamroll oposition as someone working on the limits can be difficult to challenge too strongly without putting yourself in an adverse position, as there will be few people competant to do so. In this way people in the know will be far more familiar with the limitations, or otherwise, of any particular method but will perhaps be careful about going against unless they have good backing. Therefore people out of the loop will only generally see the better bits unless something major fails. With AI it may be less the case as it is more mainstream, but, although never a lead researcher, I was able to see many ideas which were poor and eventually proved so (also the reverse too), but if you are a small cog?

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