Archive For The “Society” Category
Behind this graph (the right one) there is the “money” aspect . Who makes more than others. But more scary can be the “who runs the world” aspect (let aside the “it’s who you know, not what you know”). Without suggesting that there should be a dominance of a certain type of skill set over […]
Excellent 4th edition of the “Journée d’études Arcom”, organized by the French regulator for audiovisual and digital communications in collaboration with ENS Paris-Saclay. Our team’s contribution was the talk of our PhD student, Gaspard Abel*, in modeling and visualization of social interaction activity (at around the 54:00 in the second video below). Link to 1st […]
“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.* […]
This event is an excellent opportunity to refresh my memory about the wonderful time -just over a decade- I spent in Ioannina, while studying at the University. I am looking forward to seeing again friends and familiar faces, and above all chat with the other colleagues and the young students of the department. Many thanks […]
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 […]
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.
