Probably, yes. Because more people have to participate in these markets. Compared to eg people in competition for the Turing award, which number only a few hundred at most.
@thegautamkamath
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Paper Awards Guide AI Research Community Direction
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Third, paper awards highlight a potentially interesting direction that the community should take note of. If it's good, then the attention will help grow the area. If it's not good, it'll probably be ignored in the mid to long term. Low downside. 5/n
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Academic Award Inflation: An Arms Race in AI Conferences
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Fourth, which is the most pragmatic reason we can't just abolish them: it's an arms race. CHI gives "best paper awards" at roughly the same rate as NeurIPS orals, but it sounds better. So you have to give more awards to keep up. 6/6
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Nobel Prizes Popularize Science Beyond Academic Fields
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Second, they popularize things beyond the field, to highlight something that would otherwise be missed. Even laypeople hear about results that win the Nobel prize. This keeps the public inspired by and positive on scientific research. 4/n
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Squirrel AI’s Rapid Rise and Fall as Award Loses Prestige
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It's a rapid rise and fall (?) of an award touted as a 'New Nobel" (
https://
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AI Award Loses Sponsor Drops Prize Value Drastically
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This award was founded in 2021, and used to have the sponsor, Squirrel AI, in the title. The winner got 1 milion dollars! Now, Squirrel AI has been removed from the title, and it's "only" worth 25000 dollars (2.5% of orig). Wonder what happened. Congrats nonetheless to Tuomas.
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LLM-Generated Scientific Contributions and Author Responsibility
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At least within the context of the areas we work in, I don't really see the issue with that. If there are novel scientific contributions, which were created by the authors (potentially coerced from an LLM), and they are willing to take responsibility for it, seems fine to me.
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Keynote talks and broad vision in AI research
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I think keynote/invited talks sometimes serve this purpose, where established researchers often try to give a more broad vision beyond just one work/paper. But I agree that it's not perfect, and I like the explicit focus here on the broad vision.
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Parametric Bootstrap for Private Statistics Research Methods
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Sigh, I knew I was missing something in the related work. Yes, I was aware of this nice work by Cecilia, Shufan, and Dan — they use the parametric bootstrap for bias correction in private statistics (among other things). Will definitely add this one to the next revision.
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Emoji Reactions as Research Quality Metric Critique
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The most accurate way to evaluate quality of research papers is by the number of emoji reactions they get when posted on Slack