Researchers emphasized the pace of artificial intelligence industry
For external observers, artificial intelligence researchers are in an enviable position. They are looking for it by technology giants. They take the salaries of the eyes. They are in the most hot industry at the present time.
But all this comes with severe pressure.
More than one scrubs from Techcrunch with each other spoke of anonymity for fear of revenge, that the pace of artificial intelligence industry affected their mental health. Fierce They say that among the artificial intelligence laboratories have sparked a isolation atmosphere, while the risk has increased levels of tension.
One of the researchers told me: “Everything has changed almost overnight, with positive and negative results – with enormous effects as measured by things such as exposure to the product and financial consequences.”
Only last December, Openai Host 12 live broadcasts And during which she announced more than ten new tools, models and services. Google Respond with toolsModels, and Services On their own in an amazing set of press releases, social media, and blogs. The decline between the technology giants was great for its speed-speed that researchers say comes at a very slope cost.
Grind
Silicon Valley is not strange to the culture of crowding. With the prosperity of artificial intelligence, however, general support for exhaustion has reached worrying altitudes.
In Openai, that no Uncommon For researchers to work six days a week – and after time to quit smoking. It is said that CEO Sam Germany is pushing the company’s teams to In turn, the breaches inside Public products On arduous time tables. Former Openai Research Officer, Bob McGu, It is said He cited exhaustion as one of the reasons that prompted her departure last September.
There is no relief that can be found in competing laboratories. The Google DeepMind team developed Gemini, the leading series of IQ of Google System defect repair. And engineers at Xai, Elon Musk’s AI, regularly mail About the nights of work that bleed in the early hours of the morning.
Why amazing payment? Today’s artificial intelligence research can have a major impact on the company’s profits. Google Parent Alphabet lost About 90 billion dollars in the market value on the above errors, which caused the generation of Google Gemini from Google to generate controversial images of historical figures.
“One of the biggest pressure is the competitiveness,” said Kai Arolkumara, a research leader in the artificial intelligence provider.
Leaders above all
Some of this competition plays very publicly.
On a monthly basis – and sometimes a weekly – the artificial intelligence company is a gun on each other on the tops of leaders such as Chatbot Arena, which classifies artificial intelligence models through categories such as mathematics and coding. Logan Kilpatrick, which leads the product for many Google Gemini developers, He said In a post on X that Chatbot Arena “had a trivial impact on the speed of developing artificial intelligence.”
Not all researchers are convinced that this is a good thing. They say that the speed of industry is that they find their work at risk of observation before they can even ship.
“This makes a lot of influence on the value of their work,” said Zehan Wang, a robot engineer working for AI AI. “If there is a high possibility that someone goes faster than me, what is the meaning of what I do?”
Other researchers are delicate that the focus on production has come at the expense of academic friendship.
One of the main [causes of the stress] It is the transfer of artificial intelligence researchers from following up their research schedules in the industry to moving to work on them [AI models] “Providing solutions to products,” said Arcumara. “The industry has created expecting that artificial intelligence researchers can follow academic research in the industry, but this is no longer the case.”
Another researcher said that – cooperation and open discussions on research – to a large extent of their panic and their hardship is the base in the industry, outside a few artificial intelligence laboratories that adopted openness as a strategy for issuance.
The researcher said: “Now there is an increasing focus on marketing, expanding the closed source and implementation,” without contributing to a return to the scientific community. “
Grad Gauntlet operation
Some researchers follow the seeds of their anxiety for Amnesty International’s graduate programs.
Gowthami Somepalli, PhD, a student studying artificial intelligence at the University of Maryland, said that the research is published very quickly, it has become difficult for graduate students to distinguish between heresies and meaningful developments. Some of them said that this concerns very much, because it has increasingly witnessed artificial intelligence companies giving candidates with “very relevant experience.”
“PhD in general is an isolated and stressful experience, and a PhD in machine learning. Osbali said a special challenge due to rapid progress in the field and the mindset of” publishing or destroying “. “It can be particularly stressful when many students publish 4 papers while publishing only two or two papers per year.”
Somepalli said, after the first two years of the Grad program, she stopped eating vacations because she felt guilty because of the departure before publishing any studies.
“I have been constantly suffering from the Antichrist’s syndrome during the doctorate and almost fell at the end of my first year.
The road forward
What are the changes, if any, which can enhance the work of the work of Amnesty International is less punished? It is difficult to imagine the development of development that slows down – not with much money at stake.
Some emphasized a small but influential reform, such as normalizing the expression of individual challenges.
“One of the biggest problems […] Does anyone discuss their conflicts openly? She said, “Everyone puts a brave face.” “I believe [people] They may feel better if they can see that others are struggling as well. “
“The industry should build” strong support networks “to combat the feelings of isolation.
Bhatt said: “The promotion of a culture that appreciates the balance of work and life, as individuals can separate them from their work necessary.” “Organizations must enhance a culture that appreciates mental welfare as much as innovation, with concrete policies such as reasonable working hours, mental health days, and access to consulting services.”
Ofir Press, a post -PhD student in Princeton, suggested less conferences of artificial intelligence and “stop” for a week on paper presentations so that researchers can take a break to track a new work. Researchers, researchers, an artificial intelligence researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan, said that researchers should be reminded of nice ways of what is really important.
“We need to educate people from the beginning that artificial intelligence is just a job, and we need to focus on family, friends and the most sublime things in life,” Dabri said.
