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Re:AI competitions don’t produce useful models on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:45PM (#21022239)
One of the authors of above paper here. There is a whole line of work that supports the notion that all progress we are making via this leaderboard (or competition) mechanism is in fact real progress -- and that we are not simply overfitting to the test set. This thread by Moritz Hardt does a good job laying a few reasons why this may the case: https://twitter.com/mrtz/status/1134158716251516928