Shunyu Yao says academic AI research overcomplicates methods on simplistic tasks
Shunyu Yao · Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph · Sep 27, 2024 · at 31:32
Shunyu Yao, AI researcher and co-creator of SWE-bench, critiques academic research incentives and benchmark design methodology.
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“And I think in general, what people do in academia that I think is not good is they choose a very simple task, like Alford, and then they apply overly complex methods and to show the improved two percent I think like you should probably match, you know, the level of complexity of your task and your method, right?”
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