Archive for open AI
AI in a storm [cover]
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags Académie Goncourt, AI, Anthropic, dangers of AI, deep learning, doomsday argument, francophone literature, Francophonie, French literature, LLMs, mathematical conjecture, Nature, open AI, plagiarism, superintelligence, UN, United Nations General Assembly, weather forecasting, weather prediction on October 6, 2026 by xi'an
Nature (statistical) tidbits
Posted in Statistics with tags academic misconduct, AI, archiving, Australia, big data, bioscurity risks, ChatGPT, concentration of power, contamination, cover, design of experiments, digital preservation, exploratory data analysis, Google Scholar, hypothesis testing, megafires, Nature, NHS, Nice, open AI, OpenAI, quantum computing, Ryugu, statistical hypotheses, Trump administration, wallaby, widlfire on January 3, 2025 by xi'an
- a call for a general digital preservation of research documents, since many articles have gone awol,
- another tribune on the importance of experimental design (!), with basic recommendations such as running longitudinal studies, using the right statistical models, ensuring that findings are statistically significant and reproducible…
- yet another column on the importance of open-ended, exploratory, research, rather than sticking to confirmatory studies and “thinking of hypothesis testing as the main job of a (social science) researcher¨,
- a reanalysis of the Ryugu microbes brought back to Earth by Hayabusa2, found to be the result of a contamination,
- several entries on the scary prospect of the incoming Trump administration on the NHS, health, reproductive care, &tc.
- a prospective article on the incoming demise of Google scholar when faced with more advanced (AI) alternatives, as well as the scary possibility that AIs may lead to the creation of uncontrollable pathogens, although the call for companies taking responsibility sounds both naïve and insecure, as does the AI Action Summit in Paris next February, as well as a perspective paper on how open AI is far from open,
- and several entries on quantum computing, like AlphaQubit,
