Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | MIT Technology Review

The community’s hyperfocus on novel methods ignores what's really important.

Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Any researcher who’s focused on applying machine learning to real-world problems has likely received a response like this one: “The authors present a solution for an original and highly motivating problem, but it is an application and the significance seems limited for the machine-learning community.” These words are straight from a review I received for a paper I submitted to the NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference , a top venue for machine-learning research. I’ve

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