MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

MIT's article is quite scant on details. WSJ has more information, but still no specifics: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-beh...

> The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor. The two said they were approached in January by a computer scientist with experience in materials science who questioned how the technology worked, and how a lab that he wasn’t aware of had experienced gains in innovation. Unable to resolve those concerns, they brought it to the attention of MIT, which began conducting a review.

Nobel _Memorial_ Prize in Economic Sciences

That’s not a Nobel Prize.

If that’s the distinction, it would have been helpful for the original comment to note that they were just sharing some silly trivia instead of making a point.

The comment means remember 1974. Cough cough Hayek... cough... Samuelson...