Paper pixel-level plagiarism, online class fraud, AI online celebrity teacher Siraj was boycotted by industry bulls, Jeff Dean： it has been cleared.
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This also cuts the robe, and that also breaks off diplomatic relations. Siraj Raval, the online celebrity of AI, has really become a street rat this time.
Moreover, many of them are well-known big names in the industry.
After MIT professor Lex Fridman deleted all the content about Siraj from his social media, Jeff Dean, the head of Google AI, also publicly announced that he would take Siraj Raval.
Douglas Eck, the chief scientist of Google Brain, took the lead in calling for: this scum, criticize him and take him away!
Rachel Thomas, co-founder of fast.ai, regrets it even more:
I interviewed Siraj Raval, and it’s a stain on my life.
Who is Siraj Raval (Siradj Laval) who was torn by a group of bosses?
He is a well-known broadcaster of YouTube, and his AI network course is very popular abroad. If we want to make an analogy, his popularity in English AI online class is just like that of Li Xiaolai in the currency circle.
Now, however, the online celebrity native’s design is crumbling. Not only is the paid online course accused of cheating money, but the published paper is also naked plagiarism-all by Ctrl+C and CTRL+V..
Before being accused of "cheating money", Siraj still kept his face straight, skipped live as usual, and publicly quoted his own paper.
However, unfortunately, Andrew M. Webb, a researcher at Manchester University, took a look at it-is it too insulting to copy and paste the paper like this?
Later, the drums broke through thousands of people, and more netizens came off the scene to reveal that Siraj, online celebrity, had no underwear left today …
△ skinned stickers reddit heat 2000
It is also considered that AI is too hot, and mud and sand are everywhere. Siraj shattered the three views of the AI ? ? community with his own efforts.
A popular online class
How hot is Siraj? Just look at his former followers: Jeff Dean, Ian Goodfellow, Fran? Ois Chollet… … (All have been cleared)
I graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree (questioned by netizens as a dropout). In 2016, I started uploading artificial intelligence and blockchain related courses on YouTube. Siraj used this style of painting-
△ sing rap
Known as the strongest Rapper in the AI world.
He also founded the School of AI, an AI learning community, and called it a non-profit organization, aiming to provide world-class AI education for anyone on the planet.
It is said that more than one million students have seen his online class. And every project he has on GitHub has thousands of stars.
△Siraj Raval part GitHub project
Three months to learn data science, six weeks of intensive learning … Almost every course is under the banner of rapid learning.
Moreover, talking about learning AI to make money is just a title of "The Road to Wealth and Freedom".
Because of this resume, eloquence and ability to fool, it was really followed at first, and the business prospects were bright.
However, after he launched the charging course Make Money with Machine Learning, Siraj got into trouble.
People set a fuse for collapse: using knowledge to pay for cheating money
What got Siraj in trouble was an online course he offered, "Making money by machine learning".
Just by listening to the name, you can know that this is a knowledge-paid online course that netizens love to see, but the price is not close to the people at all, and it is much more expensive than ordinary courses in Udacity and Coursera. After all the courses are completed, you have to pay 199 US dollars, equivalent to nearly 1300 yuan.
He also claimed that his energy was limited, and in order to focus on a few students, he was limited to 500 people.
Even so, according to this limit, this course can earn him $100 thousand.
Of course, with Siraj’s high popularity, it is definitely not a problem for the course to be full.
But the tricky thing began to be exposed.
The paid students later found that Siraj not only did not build an exchange group for the course, but also found that some students could not contact each other at all when they tried to communicate through the chat software Slack.
This is naturally intentional.
Siraj actually adopted the method of building a group in batches, and recruited a total of 1200 students before and after, that is to say, in the name of "limited" marketing, taking advantage of the information gap and secretly expanding enrollment, with the aim of making as much money as possible.
Students who know the truth are angry because of "false propaganda", and they also find that the quality and commitment of the course are just like the propaganda at the time of registration.
One of the important things is personalized help, which is completely broken.
Siraj just released a 30-minute video course every week and gave everyone a question-and-answer period. What about focusing on a few students?
More ironically, students find that the course content can be found for free on GitHub … What’s more?
Holding something that is free and open source, and then deleting the license to claim originality to make money, itself violates the spirit of the open source community and is despised by the majority of programmers.
As a result, students have asked for a refund and dropped out of class, and the momentum is growing.
But how can Siraj, who has a good fortune, easily let go of the meat in his mouth? He moved the students to Discord, another chat software, and set up a special program. All messages containing the word "refund" were deleted.
If someone goes to his YouTube or Twitter to reply and ask for a refund, Siraj will always black them out.
Siraj then added a refund policy to the website, but the requirement is that the refund must be completed within 14 days after registering for the course.
However, this obviously violates California law, because consumers have the right to ask for a refund within 30 days.
In the end, Siraj couldn’t stand the huge pressure of netizens’ public opinion, or it may be because he was worried about taking a lawsuit. After weighing it again and again, he announced that students who were dissatisfied with the course and paid within 30 days could provide a full refund.
Of course, after this battle, the online celebrity people’s establishment collapsed.
Lex Fridman, a teacher and researcher at MIT who had been "pink" Siraj before, was also found by netizens last week to quietly delete all the recommendations about Siraj.
The paper was found to be plagiarized at pixel level.
However, things are not over yet.
What completely collapsed Siraj’s design was that he copied other people’s academic papers at pixel level.
Below this post, a netizen said that Siraj’s liar nature had long been discovered, especially from his "Neural Qubit" video. In this video, he just summed up the results of Nathan Killoran’s paper and added some subjective and controversial biological theories, but claimed to be his own research.
Even the code he posted to GitHub just copied and pasted other people’s versions, and deleted the license and changed some constants.
Yesterday, someone even analyzed the differences between Siraj and Nathan Killoran in detail on Twitter, which was equivalent to convicting Siraj of plagiarism.
It can be seen that Siraj is almost a piece of plagiarism. The charts, formulas and even symbols used in the two articles are exactly the same.
Even careful netizens found that Siraj’s plagiarism can be described as "true pixel level", that is, really taking screenshots.
Generally, people who do academic writing will use LaTeX to edit formulas, but the resolution of formulas in Siraj’s paper is actually lower than that in the original paper.
Yes, the chart in his paper is so vague. A reasonable explanation is that he just copied and pasted the pictures in other people’s papers.
Maybe even "washing the manuscript" feels laborious.
Of course, some people say that maybe Siraj doesn’t know LaTeX at all, his college grade is B, and he hasn’t attended graduate school, so he doesn’t have the ability to write professional academic papers.
But even if you can’t LaTeX, this plagiarism is too careless. Undergraduate students encounter poor resolution when pasting formulas, and they also know to edit in Word instead of pasting pictures directly.
No wonder some people commented that this is simply a plagiarism of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V levels.
Siraj apologizes for his resignation.
It is not very nice to say that the expansion of Siraj online courses is just a "just meal" gesture, but copying academic papers and open source code is equivalent to being sentenced to death in the circle.
Many big names who had paid attention to Siraj have said that they have cancelled their attention, including Google legend Jeff Dean.
An AI enthusiast said that Jeff’s statement is very important. Many people can avoid Siraj’s scam when they see Jeff taking the customs.
Siraj saw the momentum, too, and never carried it again.
After experiencing a rare silence, in the face of all kinds of evidence dug up by netizens, Siraj finally apologized on his Twitter a few hours ago and deleted the paper suspected of plagiarism on the whole network.
However, some people are still kept in the dark, such as the European Space Agency, and even invited him to give a speech at the event.
It’s just that there were as many fans as there were at the beginning. Enthusiastic netizens volunteered to set up an "anti-flicker consultation hotline" and sent an email to the European Space Agency, saying that Siraj’s academic ethics was questioned and called for a boycott of his speech.
It is also worth noting that Siraj has never forgotten to come to China to collect money over the years.
Last year, the domestic blockchain community invited it to cooperate with it, and even called it "Jesus in the machine learning world."
Of course, it is not without clues that Siraj misbehaves now.
However, because he had a high reputation in the field of machine learning before, and he was too good at marketing, the previous accusations of netizens about his money did not form a momentum.
Moreover, Siraj was recognized at first, and it did have something extraordinary. After all, in this field, lively and diverse lecture forms are really unique.
However, the motivation is impure, breaking through the bottom line of academic ethics, and trying to make money by using the information gap. In the end, people will inevitably bring about their own destruction.
In short, you have to pay it back sooner or later.
Fraud in the field of AI will sooner or later be hanged. Right?
The author is the signing author of Netease News and NeteaseNo. "Different Attitudes".
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