AI Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s New Machine Intelligence Journal

[ilamont]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yxwb/ai-researchers-are-boycotting-natures-new-machine-intelligence-journal

[mindcrime]

I have a hard time seeing why anybody would submit to this new journal, rather than submitting to JMLR or JAIR.

[Eridrus → mindcrime]

The Nature folks have said they plan to focus more on interdisciplinary work, which makes sense from a strategy perspective since a publication in a Nature journal is more weighty in other fields, e.g. Biology.

Also worth noting is that DeepMind publishes in Nature for the prestige.

[mindcrime → Eridrus]

The Nature folks have said they plan to focus more on interdisciplinary work

Best of luck to them, I guess. I hope most/all AI and Machine Learning researchers continue to (or begin to) publish pre-prints to ArXiv and/or submit to JMLR, JAIR, and other open-access journals.

[Eridrus → mindcrime]

I mean, I hope they fail and the publishing industry continues its decline, but I think that is where they will make inroads.