Scientists Are Failing To Replicate AI Studies (sciencemag.org)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:22AM from the closer-look dept.

The booming field of artificial intelligence (AI) is grappling with a replication crisis, much like the ones that have afflicted psychology, medicine, and other fields over the past decade. From a report: AI researchers have found it difficult to reproduce many key results, and that is leading to a new conscientiousness about research methods and publication protocols. "I think people outside the field might assume that because we have code, reproducibility is kind of guaranteed," says Nicolas Rougier, a computational neuroscientist at France's National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Bordeaux. "Far from it." Last week, at a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in New Orleans, Louisiana, reproducibility was on the agenda, with some teams diagnosing the problem -- and one laying out tools to mitigate it.

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Imagine that by 110010001000 · 2018-02-16 09:58 · Score: -1, Troll

I don't find it hard to believe that something that doesn't exist is hard to replicate. AI is not real. No amount of wishing it make it real. We can barely write functional software. iPhones can be crashed by seeing a certain character, and many millions have gone into its development. Why do people think that AI will suddenly exist? We can't even get the basics right.