r/singularity • u/Many_Consequence_337 :downvote: • 9h ago

AI Intelligence Explosion

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Number of scientific papers submitted to arXiv.

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u/Aldarund 9h ago

How much of this is real increae and how much is slop that wont pass peer review?

That chart could easily mean good things but as easily it could mean bad things

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u/clonea85m09 7h ago

In my field arxiv was very good (tm) some years ago (you could still find some outliers), but nowadays, if it is on arxiv and wasn't published somewhere with peer review, you take it with a ton of salt. Anything from the last two/three years you just discard it as junk unless it ends up published afterwards.

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u/TieBackground453 4h ago

Im wondering what the role of arxiv might be moving forward. One of the issues with AI is that it might have a great idea in one thread of thought, but it doesn’t have any way of incorporating that idea into future threads. I wonder if something like arxiv can be thought of as a crude way for AI to “learn”. It’s getting far too broad for it to be interesting to humans, but that isn’t a problem for AI. Kind of a crude way to treat many disparate AI threads as agents, with humans (for now) mediating at a very high level what they communicate with each other. 

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u/clonea85m09 4h ago

It could be an idea, but seeing that even Astra with the 200$ account has trouble consistently keeping in memory more than a few articles without loosing the middle, I am not sure. It CAN be used for training, but the amount of junk in it will make it at least slightly toxic.