The Future of Peer Review

[…] and is full of ethical dilemmas…If we dehumanize that process, we need to be wary about what values we allow artificial intelligence to impart…On the other hand, automated publishing would expedite scientific communication…Additionally, human bias is removed, making automated publishing an […]

Who Has All the Content?

[…] alerts, citation estimates, and certain other types of analytics. One service stands out for its emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence and is placed in this category somewhat provocatively. Meta gathers fulltext from many publishers and has used this for […]

Communicating Science: What Can We Do Better?

[…] proved to be more persuasive with conservatives than future-looking narratives. So, when people who reside in these communities hear about artificial intelligence, robotics, genetically modified crops, and stem cell research, it’s understandable that they begin to question whether scientists are helping […]

How To Live Safely in a Post Factual Universe

[…] Crotty have written about this, so I’ll not dwell, except to point out that the rise and profusion of increasingly smart Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered info bots (very common on Twitter at least) is very much a double-edged sword. I do believe […]

The Curse of Monkey Island

[…] blog post! But actually, there’s another point still about creativity in non-human entities. Consider the case of an AI ( artificial intelligence) that has been taught how to be creative. Not possible! I hear you cry. Au contraire my friends. Google […]

SXSW Interactive 2015: More Relevant Than Ever

[…] just a couple of decades ago, as we watched postage stamp sized sensors on the brain allow paraplegics to move artificial limbs with their minds. But I kept coming back to a session entitled How Innovation Happens where a quick […]

MOOCs and the Cycle of Hype

[…] ago, Sebastian Thrun brought the MOOC to general public awareness when he launched an introductory MOOC on the subject of artificial intelligence, and reactions to the MOOC’s sudden prominence were both widespread and highly varied: MOOCs “pose a great threat to… […]

Experiments in Free Education: The Audacity of Udacity

[…] That would sound more audacious if he hadn’t already succeeded at attracting 160,000 students to a free online course in artificial intelligence that he offered while still in his teaching position at Stanford. Five hundred thousand is a potentially game-changing number […]