Trust in science seems compatible with believing almost anything, so long as it is expressed in plausibly scientific terms.
- Workday Professor of Technology and Society, Trinity College Dublin
Elon Musk veut concurrencer Wikipédia avec Grokipedia, une encyclopédie générée par IA censée corriger les biais de la célèbre plateforme collaborative. Mais l’IA risque surtout de reproduire, voire d’accentuer, les travers que dénonce le magnat de la tech.
Musk’s new WIkipedia rival aims to offer the same service but without the political bias.
AI could help augment human intelligence in areas such as disaster relief.
Collaboration is often promoted as a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. But sometimes working solo is the best option.
Small design decisions by big tech companies can play a role in directing our attention.
An expert had a confusing time trying out Facebook dating.
Devotion to work can lead to burnout.
Anchoring bias meant we found it hard to get rid of the first bit of information we heard.
We analysed data from almost 88,000 matches played over 26 years across 11 major European leagues. This is what we found.
Diet - specifically veganism - and its impact on identity is becoming the focus of increasingly heated online discussions around climate change.
New research into sex work in the UK highlights some of the changes and challenges sex workers have faced.
Understanding the different types of visitors and how they navigate museums can help these institutions reopen safely.
The prime minister’s adviser claims to have warned about coronavirus pandemics last year. The internet nerds say otherwise.
A new machine learning tool can detect and classify different strengths of Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter.
The unexpected behaviour of even simple bots is only going to get more dramatic as AI scales up.
Current events can boost our collective memory of past events in predictable ways, finds study.
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us - our lack of critical eye that’s the real problem.
Conservative chairman Grant Shapps is accused of sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, but this former Wikipedia admin isn’t so sure the evidence stands up.
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