I found this comment to be relevant: "Keep in mind this whitepaper is really just Apple circling the wagons because they have dick for proprietary AI tech."
When you question the source, it really does raise eyebrows, especially as an Apple shareholder: that these Apple employees are busy not working on their own AI programme that's now insanely far behind other big tech companies, but are instead spending their time casting shade on the reasoning models developed at other AI labs.
What's the motivation here, really? The paper itself isn't particularly insightful or ground-breaking.
The motivation is doing research to better understand AI?
People's time and attention is not fungible—especially in inherently creative pursuits like research—and the mindset in your comment is exactly the sort of superficial administrative reasoning that leads to hype bubbles unconstrained by reality.
"Why are you wasting your time trying to understand what we're doing instead of rushing ahead without thinking" is absolutely something I've heard from managers and executives, albeit phrased more politically, and it never ends well in a holistic accounting.
The paper was written by highly accomplished ML researchers who don’t have any stake in Apple’s continued success. Framing this peer-reviewed research written by respected authors as “sour grapes” is intellectually dishonest.
It's easy to argue about the people who write the paper and their incentives. It takes a lot more effort to prove that the data, the procedure or the conclusion in the paper has flaws, and back it up.
> I found this comment to be relevant: "Keep in mind this whitepaper is really just Apple circling the wagons because they have dick for proprietary AI tech."
Now, if we fed the relevant references into an AI model, would the model offer this as a possible motive for the paper in question?
This is ridiculous. If Apple wanted to make competing AI look bad, getting some researchers to publish a critical paper is hardly going to have any kind of worthwhile outcome.
I found this comment to be relevant: "Keep in mind this whitepaper is really just Apple circling the wagons because they have dick for proprietary AI tech."
When you question the source, it really does raise eyebrows, especially as an Apple shareholder: that these Apple employees are busy not working on their own AI programme that's now insanely far behind other big tech companies, but are instead spending their time casting shade on the reasoning models developed at other AI labs.
What's the motivation here, really? The paper itself isn't particularly insightful or ground-breaking.