https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers
"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.
Papers he has put out in the past two years cover subjects such as using AI to
locate nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, to evaluate skin lesions and
to translate Indonesian dialects. On his LinkedIn, he touts publishing “100+
top conference papers in the past year”, which have been “cited by OpenAI,
Microsoft, Google, Stanford, MIT, Oxford and more”.
Zhu’s papers are a “disaster”, said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science
at Berkeley, in an interview. “I’m fairly convinced that the whole thing, top
to bottom, is just vibe coding,” he said, referring to the practice of using AI
to create software."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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