Richard Socher thinks AI research has swung toward a dominant approach and that researchers should now try unusual, less-obvious ideas.

“church like if you look at uh ai conferences now i still remember the days in like 2010 when i tried to get my first neural net papers and nlp conferences accepted and they just desk rejected them because uh like neural nets were something quote unquote we don't do in nlp conferences like and just like desk rejected it was very brutal in the first years of my phd um now i feel like it's almost like the field switch to the other side like someone should try some other weird crazy ideas now that aren't”

“as obvious”

“Yeah, I like. mean, like someone someone should still like do novel novel out there ideas.”