Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by icc97 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:08PM (#17182079)

Not that I'm for journals, but those heavy hitters typically have their own brand in that of Google or Microsoft etc. Without an external 'brand' of Nature the importance of working for the recognised companies when submitting your research papers goes up.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Vinnl on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:29AM (#17186037)

That's what makes their support so important. If they're not publishing there, then the external brand value of this specific journal goes down, which means that even for less heavy hitters, the best "brand" value is still in the journals that actually make their work as widely available as possible.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by make3 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:16PM (#17182978)

Yoshua Bengio doesn't work for a large brand

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by robotresearcher on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:20PM (#17183013)

For the unfamiliar, Bengio has his own company:

https://www.elementai.com/en/who-we-are

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by make3 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @06:11PM (#17183278)

He still spends most of his time at MILA, of which he is the director, which is UdeM and McGill's shared AI research group. source: I study there.

http://mila.quebec/

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