Another recent post on Cristian Axenie’s LinkedIn profile is this one:
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Mmmmh, very interesting to see that Akida will finally be featured in one of the Open Neuromorphic Workshops!
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Why am I saying this?
Several Open Neuromorphic members such as co-founders Jason Eshraghian (Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz)) and Fabrizio Ottati (who recently completed his PhD and started a job as an AI/ML Processor Engineer at NXP Semiconductors just this week) have so far not taken Brainchip seriously at all if not to say completely dismissed it, mistakenly listed Akida as being analog in a research paper, and in addition have repeatedly expressed their dislike of the way select BRN shareholders are spruiking Akida in the Open Neuromorphic LinkedIn comments - it has even become a running joke among them (see screenshots below).
I am not entirely sure whether they really think the company itself is behind what they consider “blatant spam” (according to Ottati “one of the major source of memes” in their discord channel…), but it does reflect the criticism previously expressed by TSE posters such as
@Moonshot,
@ndefries and
@DK6161 that some people in the neuromorphic community or certain companies may feel pestered by these kind of LinkedIn comments and be put off.
Well, hopefully this upcoming presentation will convince the prejudiced sceptics in the Open Neuromorphic community that there is more to Akida than what they think there is and to help free the company from the bad image it has evidently gotten in their circle.
And if not? So be it. Luckily there are plenty of notable researchers in the neuromorphic community that will disagree with them.
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