18 Articles about AI & Academic Research

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Could AI Disrupt Peer Review?  Publishers’ policies lag technological advances - Spectrum

The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles - Springer

‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud - Nature

AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress - Economist  

Researchers plan to release guidelines for the use of AI in publishing - Chemical & Engineering News

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken - Nature   

Detecting fraud in scientific publications: the perils and promise of AI - Science Pod 

The Science family of journals is adopting the use of Proofig, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered image-analysis tool- Science Magazine  

Can ChatGPT and Other AI Bots Serve as Peer Reviewers? - ACS Publishing  

AI Use in Manuscript Preparation for Academic Journals - Cornell University 

As scientists face a flood of papers, AI developers aim to help New tools show promise, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use - Science Magazine  

Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science? – Nature  

Affiliation Bias in Peer Review of Abstracts by a Large Language Mode - JAMA

AI copilots and robo-labs turbocharge research - Axios 

Editing companies are stealing unpublished research to train their AI - Times Higher Ed 

How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images - Nature  

Can ChatGPT evaluate research quality? - Cornell University   

The JSTOR Daily Sleuth - Jstor

20 Recent Articles about AI & Journalism

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Two journalists talk to the bots — who talk back — about the pros and pitfalls of AI  - Nieman Labs

What will be the impact of generative AI on journalism? – Reuters  

TikTok dominates media outlets as news source for Gen Z - Axios

Vice Media to Stop Publishing on Vice.com, Plans to Cut Hundreds of Jobs – Wall Street Journal

How OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora, could harm journalism and society - Poynter

Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI – The Verge

AI and Journalism Need Each Other – WSJ

How less, not more, data, could help journalism – Semafor

News Publishers See Google’s AI Search Tool as a Traffic-Destroying Nightmare - WSJ

AI may be news reporting’s future. So far, it’s been an embarrassment. - Washington Post 

Can news outlets build a ‘trustworthy’ AI chatbot? - The Verge  

How to report on AI in elections - International Journalists' Network -  International Center For Journalists

How Reuters, Newsquest and BBC experiment with generative AI – Journalism.co  

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles – 404 Media

Experts Warn Congress of Dangers AI Poses to Journalism - TIME

The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom - The Verge

New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement – WSJ

I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports - Reuters

The AI Revolution in Journalism: A New Era of Enhanced Reporting - Hackernoon

How The Generative AI Boom Proves We Need Journalism - AdExchanger

AI is a big opportunity for the news media. Let’s not blow it. - Columbia Journalism Review

Little Lies

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Little Lies

 

Small, self-serving lies are likely to progress to bigger falsehoods, and over time, the brain appears to adapt to the dishonesty, according to a new study. 

The finding, the researchers said, provides evidence for the “slippery slope” sometimes described by wayward politicians, corrupt financiers, unfaithful spouses and others in explaining their misconduct. 

“They usually tell a story where they started small and got larger and larger, and then they suddenly found themselves committing quite severe acts,” said Tali Sharot, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London. She was a senior author of the study.

Erica Goode writing in the New York Times

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Memories

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In 1974, Elizabeth Loftus at the University of Washington conducted a study in which people watched films of car crashes. She then asked the participants to estimate how fast the cares were going, but she divided the people into groups and asked the question differently for each.

The word changes included: smashed, collided, bumped, hit, and contacted.

Just by changing the wording, the memories of the subjects were altered. Loftus raised the ante by asking the same people if they remembered the broken glass in the film. There was no broken glass, but sure enough the people who were given the word “smashed” in their question were twice as likely to remember seeing it.

Since then, hundreds of experiments into the misinformation effect have been conducted, and people have been convinced of all sorts of things. Screwdrivers become wrenches, white men become black men and experiences involving other people get traded back and forth.

Memory is imperfect, but also constantly changing. Not only do you filter your past through your present, but your memory is easily infected by social contagion. You incorporate the memories of others into your own head all the time. Studies suggest your memory is permeable, malleable, and evolving. It isn’t fixed and permanent, but more like a dream that pulls information about what you are thinking about during the day and adds new details to the narrative.

David McRaney, You are Not so Smart

15 Articles about How Students are Using AI

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Two Lies

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We lie, of course, not only to others but also to ourselves. Of the myriad lies people often tell themselves, two of the most common, potent and destructive are “We really love our children” and “Our parents really loved us.” If may be that our parents did love us and we do love our children, but when it is not the case, people often go to extraordinary lengths to avoid the realization.

I frequently refer to psychotherapy as the “truth game” or the “honest game” because its business is among other things to help patients confront such lies. One of the roots of mental illness is invariably an interlocking system of lies we have been told and lies we have told ourselves. These roots can be uncovered and excised only in an atmosphere of utter honesty.

M Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

"Flow Activities"

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Every flow activity, whether it involved competition, chance, or any other dimension of experience, had this in common: It provided a sense of discovery, a creative feeling of transporting the person into a new reality. It pushed the person to higher levels of performance, and led to previously undreamed-of states of consciousness. In short, it transformed the self by making it more complex. In this growth of the self lies the key to flow activities.

It is this dynamic feature that explains why flow activities lead to growth and discovery. One cannot enjoy doing the same thing at the same level for long. We grow either bored or frustrated; and then the desire to enjoy ourselves again pushes us to stretch our skills or to discover new opportunities for using them.

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Flow

Catching Fire

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Many people are tired simply because they are not interested in anything. Nothing ever moves them deeply. To some people it makes no difference what’s going on or how things go. Their personal concerns are superior even to all the crises of human history.

Nothing makes any real difference to them except their own little worries, their desires, and their hates. They wear themselves out stewing around about a lot of inconsequential things that amount to nothing. So they become tired. They even become sick. The surest way not to become tired is to lose yourself in something in which you have a profound conviction.

A famous statesman who made seven speeches in one day was still boundless in energy.

"Why are you not tired after making seven speeches?" I asked.

"Because," he said, "I believe absolutely in everything I said in those speeches. I am enthusiastic about my convictions."

That's the secret. He was on fire for something. He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired doing nothing. You don't have to be tired. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody.

Do something. Don't sit around moaning about things, reading the papers, and saying, "Why don't they do something?" The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You won't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do

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When I think of my favorite restaurants, the ones I have visited many times, it is striking how few of the menu items I have tried. And when I think of all the lunch places near my workplace, I realize that I keep going to the same places again and again.

Habits are powerful. We persist with many of them because we tend to give undue emphasis to the present. Trying something new can be painful: I might not like what I get and must forgo something I already enjoy. That cost is immediate, while any benefits — even if they are large — will be enjoyed in a future that feels abstract and distant. Yes, I want to know what else my favorite restaurant does well, but today I just want my favorite dish. 

Overconfidence also holds us back. I am unduly certain in my guesses of what the alternatives will be like, even though I haven’t tried them.  

Many so-called choices are not really choices at all. Walking down the supermarket aisle. I act without thinking. 

Experimentation is an act of humility, an acknowledgment that there is simply no way of knowing without trying something different.

Understanding that truth is a first step, but it is important to act on it.  

Sendhil Mullainathan writing in the New York Times

What Pain Does to Us

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Pain humbles the proud. It softens the stubborn. It melts the hard. Silently and relentlessly, it wins battles deep within the lonely soul. The heart alone knows its own sorrow, and not another person can fully share in it. Pain operates alone; it needs no assistance. It communicates its own message whether to statesman or servant, preacher or prodigal, mother or child. By staying, it refuses to be ignored. By hurting, it reduces its victim to profound depths of anguish. And it is at that anguishing point that the sufferer either submits and learns, developing maturity and character; or resists and becomes embittered, swamped by self-pity, smothered by self-will. I have tried and cannot find, either in Scripture or history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

Charles Swindoll, Killing Giants, Pulling Thorns

15 Recent Articles about AI & the Bigger Questions

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Adaptability: Critical to Effective Leadership

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A decade long study published in Harvard Business Review set out to identify the specific attributes that differentiate high-performing CEOs: 

Our analysis shows that CEOs who excel at adapting are 6.7 times more likely to succeed. CEOs themselves told us over and over that this skill was critical. The adaptable CEOs spent significantly more of their time—as much as 50%—thinking about the long term. Adaptable CEOs also recognize that setbacks are an integral part of changing course and treat their mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow. In our sample, CEOs who considered setbacks to be failures had 50% less chance of thriving. Successful CEOs, on the other hand, would offer unabashedly matter-of-fact accounts of where and why they had come up short and give specific examples of how they tweaked their approach to do better next time. Similarly, aspiring CEOs who demonstrated this kind of attitude (what Stanford’s Carol Dweck calls a “growth mindset”) were more likely to make it to the top of the pyramid: Nearly 90% of the strong CEO candidates we reviewed scored high on dealing with setbacks.

Read more about the CEO Genome Project in the Harvard Business Review

Tech Companies Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab

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The collaboration between foreign tech companies and the Ukrainian armed forces, who say they have a software engineer deployed with each battalion, is driving a new kind of experimentation in military AI. The software processes raw intelligence from sources including drones, satellites, and Ukrainians on the ground, as well as radar that can see through clouds and thermal images that can detect troop movements and artillery fire. AI-enabled models can then present military officials with the most effective options to target and enemy positions.

Read more from TIME

21 Recent Articles about AI & Writing

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