2026-09-11 23:45 UTC
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- This peculiar behaviour appears not new: several colleagues vividly remember past "epidemics", the peaks of contagion in the form of (sort of) "religious" or "sectarian" exaltation when academy/industry advertising campaigns succeeded in persuading of an imminent and irreversible technical/scientific revolution - e.g. #Bayesian "semantic" networks, #SupportVectorMachines, #RandomForest classifiers/regressors, #blockchain everywhere, ... "new species" which with time found their niche
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-09-13 15:43
13/ Blurred spectrum between two refusal ways to disclose #NegativeResults and the process towards obtaining any given "successful" solution - #generativeAI companies using these "opaque" solutions as advertising and with goals "severely misaligned" [3] vs. the goals of the #ScientificCommunity - #scientific/ #technical experts increasingly adopting an "opaque" process to deliver "successful" solutions, hiding (or simply being more and more unable to keep up with) even the more severe pitfalls