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In their essay, "The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, the Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy," Sarah Friar and Laura Claster Bisesto highlight the strategy of digitally-mediated engagement as a scaffold for broader, bigger missions in our analog societies. Friar and Bisesto remind us that people have a strong local compass in terms of the geographical scope of their activities. Read this essay and the other thought-provoking pieces in The Digitalist Papers. https://lnkd.in/eASj2Cwy

🌏 "Democracy is not just about holding an idea, a position, or an opinion. It's about action. It's about what we can do together to be powerful in the world." Watch the 2024 Ian P. Sharp Lecture featuring invited speaker Beth Simone Noveck: "From ballots to bots: AI’s transformative role in democratic societies." This lecture was the concluding event to our annual academic conference, Absolutely Interdisciplinary, and was co-hosted by our friends at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. https://lnkd.in/gFvpymqg cc: The Burnes Center for Social Change, Northeastern University, Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

ReMO Policy Impact! ReMO Chair Gábor Kismihók contributed to evidence-gathering workshops behind the EU report "Successful and timely uptake of artificial intelligence in science in the EU". Check out the section on "AI impact on research jobs and careers", which references the Researcher Mental Health Manifesto that is a key document of the ReMO COST Action. COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Thanks Sunil Badami and Elaine Laforteza (PhD) for sharing your perspective on dismantling Anglo-American and Anglo-Australian bias in tech and language. Looking forward to your upcoming Say My Name panel conversation as part of Vivid. https://lnkd.in/ggqXRsfu

From 2012 to 2022, a decade of AI advancements reminiscent of Galileo Galilei's era, started with ImageNet. Question 1: Why didn't computer vision researchers favor neural networks before the 2012 ImageNet breakthrough? Answer : ? Question 2. How much data is required to train a foundation model on a given task? Answer .? Question 3. Can a 4th-year student learn the same task with less data compared to the model? Answer: In comparison, a 4th-year student (assuming this refers to a college or university student) might be able to learn the same task with significantly less data. Human learning processes are more efficient in certain aspects due to prior knowledge, contextual understanding, and the ability to make inferences from fewer examples. However, the exact amount of data required for a human to learn the task would still depend on the task's complexity and the student's background knowledge. https://lnkd.in/gWmJzGue

🔍 If you didn’t, make sure to take a look at the SAPEA Evidence Review Report published for the European Commission where Gábor Kismihók mentions the ReMO COST Action Researcher Mental Health Manifesto ⭐️ RUMO is represented within the ReMO network by me, and - bias aside - I must say that if you find mental health in general important, and in specific for the academic sector, you also will want to follow this network outputs as they are published, especially the Policy documents 💡 #mentalhealth #artificialintelligence #innovation #socialimpact #policyimpact

Language shapes thought. Different languages shape different thoughts and shape thoughts differently. Language is such an amazing subtle thing. While experimenting with #LLM in our #collectiveintelligene platform CircleLytics Dialogue, we notice the critical importance of large collectives of humans in the loop of contextualizing language to avoid too-early or sole deployment of LLMs. https://lnkd.in/ecfdAQY6

AI has evolved from a niche academic pursuit to a transformative force driving innovation across industries. Driving this transformation are visionaries, scientists and entrepreneurs who have helped shape AI’s trajectory. In our latest blog post, we're shining the spotlight on the top 10 AI pros who represent a diverse spectrum of expertise, from foundational research and technical innovations to ethical considerations and public advocacy. Take a look here: https://lnkd.in/gBFhf4hB

Always love the work of this group. The paper provides yet more evidence to the commonly occurring theme: ''people subconsciously mirror emotion regardless of its source." This suggests that our conversational behaviours are identically triggered by the presence of voice: human or human-like. Voice interfaces are powerful. And we do not, yet, have a full understanding of the voice signal or its multi-layered perception.

Rhythm Rules Baby Language! 🎵🗣️ New research spills the beans on baby talk: - Phonetics kick in at seven months. - Rhythmic speech is the early language champ. 👶 Tip for Parents: Start rhythmic talk early! 🌈 It's the secret language scaffold. Groundbreaking insights from the BabyRhythm project reshape how we see language learning, read more here: https://lnkd.in/esCDgjuT #BabyTalkRevealed #RhythmMagic 🚀