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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Aisha Down

RARE PHOTOS: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem academics say it s a mess - The Real Truth

Man typing on laptop in office.
The author, Kevin Zhu, now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers. Photograph: Cavan Images/Alamy

A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conferences on AI and machine learning, which has raised questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research.

The author, Kevin Zhu, recently finished a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers – many of whom are his co-authors on the papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018.

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