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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29799024

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper

The paper said that after an AI tool was implemented at a large materials-science lab, researchers discovered significantly more materials—a result that suggested that, in certain settings, AI could substantially improve worker productivity. That paper, by Aidan Toner-Rodgers, was covered by The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets.

The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor.

In a press release, MIT said it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

The university said the author of the paper is no longer at MIT.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

lol isn't this paper basically the basis of this trash having any utility at all? Is there anything left?

[–] quilan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AlphaEvolve legit just discovered a faster method of 4x4 matrix multiplication (1 fewer multiply), and that's a subject that's had a ton of eyes on it for decades. It's pretty impressive actually!

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

That algo does require more additions though, so depending on the input it's actually slower. But it is still a neat discovery and it does highlight that there exists sufficient potential here.