Archive For The “Science” Category
“Computer Science is the future”, they used to say. And despite being still emphatically present today, and will be also in the foreseeable future, at the same time we cannot but notice that things change, especially for that CS part closer to Computing. In some sense, this is for all the range of information sciences.* […]
Is Big Tech the new Tobacco Industry, when it comes to policymaking around AI and techno-ethics?
By theone | November 6, 2022
In the paper The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the Threat on Academic Integrity, the authors investigate the very important issue of how the AI scientific agenda and policymaking around AI can be (and evidence imply they actually are) manipulated by Big Tech. The abstract states: “…Big Tech can actively distort […]
The Franco-Bavarian AI Cup is now open for participation, for students and junior researchers from Europe interested in AI and Data Science. Trophy: up to €95.000 for financing the launch of a start-up. Procedure: Successful participation in one of the announced challenging use-cases, linked with sustainable development, which are out in collaboration with our partners […]
Evidence of increasing sentimentalism and individualism in written language
By theone | December 27, 2021
The recent paper “The rise and fall of rationality in language” (PNAS, Dec 2021), by Marten Scheffera, Ingrid van de Leemputa, Els Weinansa, and Johan Bollenc, brings some quantification over the way we use language to communicate, express ideas, argue, etc, in the course of time.
* The title paraphrases a Greek proverb that literally says: “pretty villages burn pretty”, while implying that the ugly ones remain ugly even in flames. The proverb is most common in Balkan countries.
This short article of Kyle R. Myers et al. about the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on scientists is worth sharing. The survey study, although indicative and probably not statistically unbiased, is still analyzing a good amount of people in academia and research.
