Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by johbjo on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:23AM
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Money is not an issue at all. It's about protecting the perception of quality that comes from having Google co-authors, and ultimately the Google brand.
Otherwise, everyone and their mother would milk the Google name by submitting papers in every direction.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by dheera on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:23PM
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Sure, then they should have a 2-step process. The first step should be approving writing the paper, and any high selectivity should happen at that point.
The second step should be approving the final contents, and that process should not reject a high fraction of submissions and should allow resubmissions with changes.
It would suck to spend 200 hours figuring out how to fight to position figures in LaTeX only to be rejected by some dudes who think the figure is confidential.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by hooloovoo_zoo on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:21AM
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That wouldn't be effective though. Most of the time these reviews are to make sure company IP isn't being published, which could be outside the main results or abstract.
Paper writing is painstaking and mentally tiring. It would be much more efficient if they reviewed results and an abstract and then decided based on that "Go ahead and write the paper and publish it" or "Don't waste time writing it up".