Comment by ericmay
16 hours ago
> Meanwhile, everyone in the field of genomics knows that AlphaGenome provides essentially zero improvements over the previous SOTA, Borzoi…
Can you elaborate on this? I'm confused why Google would build something that provides zero improvements over SOTA, Borzoi... as you mention. I'm not familiar with this field, just curious.
Speaking as somebody who has worked within Google Research before: the researchers are under tremendous pressure to publish SOTA and sometimes they juice their results a bit to look competitive when they can't match. This is not uncommon in the field- it's remarkably easy to edit a paper to make yourself look good by omitting information.
One of the most egregious cases of this, in my opinion, is only publishing metrics that cover part of the confusion matrix. “The false-negative rate? That could not possibly matter for a variant effect prediction model; why would we include that in the paper?” Example: AlphaMissense.
The use of an exact quote in an ungrammatical fashion is a bit of a language model smell. I can’t help but be reminded of the purely nonsensical AI interview answers. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Chick Bongo”
Creating an account 12 minutes ago (from the time of this posting) to comment on how another comment seems to you like a "language model smell" is itself, a language model smell, or a scammer.
Please stop accusing or hinting at others being a language model or bot. Not only is it a dumb waste of time, it's wrong in this instance and you are not only going to continue to be wrong but you have no way to prove or demonstrate that any single post comes from a bot nor the ability to do anything about it if you did in fact believe some comment to be attributed to a bot.