Sure :) I saw that one on their website as well. But a few papers over the course of 2-3 years isn’t very representative for an effective research group, is it? If you look at groups by scholars who do get (way smaller) grants in the field of AI, their output is way more effective. But even if we don’t count publications, but speak in terms of effectiveness of a few publications, I am not seeing anything. If you are, maybe you can explain it to me?
I regret I don’t have much insight to offer on the general point. When I was looking into the bibliometrics myself, very broad comparison to (e.g.) Norwegian computer scientists gave figures like ‘~0.5 to 1 paper per person year’, which MIRI’s track record seemed about on par if we look at peer reviewed technical work. I wouldn’t be surprised to find better performing research groups (in terms of papers/​highly cited papers), but slightly moreso if these groups were doing AI safety work.
This paper was in 2016, and is included in the proceedings of the UAI conference that year. Does this not count?
Sure :) I saw that one on their website as well. But a few papers over the course of 2-3 years isn’t very representative for an effective research group, is it? If you look at groups by scholars who do get (way smaller) grants in the field of AI, their output is way more effective. But even if we don’t count publications, but speak in terms of effectiveness of a few publications, I am not seeing anything. If you are, maybe you can explain it to me?
I regret I don’t have much insight to offer on the general point. When I was looking into the bibliometrics myself, very broad comparison to (e.g.) Norwegian computer scientists gave figures like ‘~0.5 to 1 paper per person year’, which MIRI’s track record seemed about on par if we look at peer reviewed technical work. I wouldn’t be surprised to find better performing research groups (in terms of papers/​highly cited papers), but slightly moreso if these groups were doing AI safety work.