Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?

Google’s journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.

SSP: The Next Generation

[…] past 20 years but in the career spans of these young professionals, further revolutions are coming as technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning become both powerful and ubiquitous. Encouragingly, all contributors see SSP — and themselves! — as part […]

Amazon Peer Review: Coming To A Preprint Near You

[…] the Internet, it’s getting much harder to detect if you’re a dog. Defenders of open peer review systems argue that  Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help scientists sniff out and expose fake preprint reviews. Indeed, AI software has already been implemented into peer […]

Algorithms Are Opinions Embedded in Code

[…] Nature. Peer reviews, like letters of recommendation, are opinions. Discussions along these lines inevitably lead to suggestions that with improved artificial intelligence (AI), we’ll reduce subjectivity through machine reading of papers and create a fairer system of peer review. O’Neil, in […]

The Facebooking of Scholarly Research

[…] into their Facebook posts to increase the likelihood that their friends would see their posts in their News Feed. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, Boyd believes things are going to get much worse: If you don’t have a structure […]

Journals Peer Review: Past, Present, Future

[…] experiment with different models of peer review, particularly those that increase transparency, encourage more diversity in the reviewer pool, utilize Artificial Intelligence, and those that support training and mentoring. Making the peer review process and experience better and more efficient is […]

Ask The Chefs: Should Peer Review Change?

[…] or double blind review, we have seen the rise of open peer review in some disciplines. And the use of artificial intelligence in peer review could be the next big thing.  The main issue from my perspective is that peer review […]