Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
There are many comments that identify the work by corporate sponsored researchers as fraud and not research.<p>I have the unpopular opinion, and I vehemently disagree.<p>There is no altruistic, sponsored research, no matter of the sponsor, be it corporate, government, non profit, or the Holy See.<p>There is always a specific outcome the sponsor hopes for.  The question is, how much pressure the sponsor puts on the researcher not to publish failed or unfavorable outcomes? And, we all know majority of failed research never gets published.<p>Let&#x27;s presume that we accept sponsorship.  What is acceptable level of pressure?  I think this is very subjective.<p>To be clear, falsifying by modification, omission or addition of data is fraud.  Drawing the wrong conclusion is not.<p>The only time I have seen altruistic, &quot;clean&quot; research was performed by individuals as hobby.  Once there are more than one person involved, there <i>will</i> be some preferred outcome.  Nature of humanity.