Trying to Understand "In the Era" Hype In the Era of 2024 Research
Views are My Own
I am not an experienced researcher in any capacity. These are just some personal thoughts. They do not represent any views of my advisors or my past & future employers
Just from reading the title, you probably already know what is coming. In the era of large language models is now a phrase seen everywhere in 2024 Computer Science research.
During the ~2ish years, I have listened to many talks and read many papers on research in Software Engineering, Systems, Natural Language Processing and other Computer Science disciplines at large. One obvious trend is the rise of large language models and its many other related topics (i.e. Agents, RLHF, multimodal etc.). Personally, I am very interested in this area and some of my recent research projects have directly touched these things. The work done by my research group and advisor has also been incredible and is drastically changing the Software Engineering space for the better. However in general, I am curious whether this hype is justified and if this in the era of x idea promote lazy and low quality research.
I guess time will tell 🤷♂️.