Tag: science
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Weekly digest 46
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 31
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 29
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 28
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Podcast – Breaking Boundaries: Democratizing Scientific Knowledge Using AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/breaking-boundaries-democratizing-scientific-knowledge-using-ai-with-gabe-gomes-of-coscientist/ Gabe Gomes, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses Democratizing Scientific Knowledge using AI. They talk about Coscientist, the first non-organic, intelligent being to design, plan, and execute a chemistry experiment. They explore the benefits and concerns of using AI in science, the potential of AI in generating synthesis protocols, the value of automation…
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Link: Ethical guidelines for generative AI in research
Lin, Z. (2024). Building ethical guidelines for generative AI in scientific research. Arxiv. This paper offers an initial framework by developing analyses and mitigation strategies across five key themes: understanding model limitations regarding truthfulness and bias; respecting privacy, confidentiality, and copyright; avoiding plagiarism and policy violations when incorporating model output; ensuring applications provide overall benefit;…
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We can’t predict the behaviour of AI systems…
However, it’s also true that we can’t predict the behaviour of human beings; people do all sorts of crazy things. And yet somehow we’ve figured out a way to trust them anyway. I think we’ll do the same with AI.
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Comment: A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
We found that the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020. For China-based reviewers, the estimate is over 600 million USD, and…
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On the poor performance of AI models during the pandemic
Heaven, W.D. (2021). Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. MIT Technology Review. In the end, many hundreds of predictive tools were developed. None of them made a real difference, and some were potentially harmful. That’s the damning conclusion of multiple studies published in the last few months.…
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Comment: Could robots make us better humans?
This is one of his arguments for listening to AI-generated music, studying how computers do maths and…gazing at digitally produced paintings: to understand how advanced machines work at the deepest level, in order to make sure we know everything about the technology that is now built into our lives. Harris, J. (2019). Could robots make…
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Link: Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on ‘Enlightenment Now,’ One Year Later
I’m a big fan of Steven Pinker’s writing (I know that this isn’t fashionable with the social justice warriors, but there it is) and so was really happy to read his 10 000 word response to some of the criticisms of his latest book, Enlightenment Now. While reviews of the book were overwhelmingly positive many…
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Academic expert says Google and Facebook’s AI researchers aren’t doing science
in AIGoogle and Facebook, and other corporate research labs are focused on AI for profit, not on advancing science..such laboratories aren’t advancing the field of cognitive science anymore than Ford is advancing the field of physics at the edge. After all, no matter how impressive neural networks are, they operate on principles that date back decades.…
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I enjoyed reading (July)
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You (Daniela Hernandez) Artificial intelligence is still in the very early stages of development–in so many ways, it can’t match our own intelligence–and computers certainly can’t replace doctors at the bedside. But today’s machines are capable of crunching vast amounts of data and identifying patterns that…
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I enjoyed reading (May)
Stop publishing web pages (Anil Dash): Start moving your content management system towards a future where it outputs content to simple APIs, which are consumed by stream-based apps that are either HTML5 in the browser and/or native clients on mobile devices. What happens when everyone is pushing their content out into streams that can be filtered, mixed together,…
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Cultivating curiosity
in LearningCarl Sagan is one of my favourite people in the world. Not only did he have his own sense of delight in discovery, but he could express it in ways that cultivated that sense in others.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-23
Solve For X: synthetic life toolkits http://t.co/50e7H1SN #solveforx (craziness) # RT @clin_teacher: We’re live in the app store with our first piece of content: Peer Review of Teaching. Check it out at http://t.co/GLhlmSkQ # Just heard that The Clinical Teacher was approved by Apple. If you’re involved in clinical education check it out http://t.co/EPwmoSQ3 #…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-27
@fifino9 I’ve been trying to make sure that I don’t spend all my time in front of the computer, trying to maintain balance 🙂 # Baking rolls https://t.co/ZCB3BJbs https://t.co/wUAOcPWM https://t.co/hZTuuJE7 # One of the most beautiful, inspirational videos I’ve seen in years http://t.co/i4pIvRF2 # http://t.co/1KCFjGlf # Making jam for Christmas presents. Strawberry/vanilla, and apricot/ginger. https://t.co/5YpJYEyn…