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thomasjorgensen

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On my second decade in Brussels - looking at the world through the lens of research, education and innovation

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thomasjorgensen, to ai
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"AI has not created a situation where we need new principles. The established principles remain the crucial ones. But we do need to think through the changing situations anew, in order to figure out how to respond well to a rapidly changing landscape." Says Hallvard Fossheim from @UiB

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240521112135856

thomasjorgensen, to ai
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"Not human in the loop of #AI - human in control, AI in the loop"

Nice one-liner from #aied24 - @etui conference on #Artificialintelligence in #research and #education

thomasjorgensen, to Futurology
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(Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment - @CoARAssessment) is mapping assessment practices around the world.

This is a key topic for making great again, and for anything .So, if you are a or research organisation, please have a look at this survey from @EUA

https://eua.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AqJbzEiBWPPWMS

thomasjorgensen, to Futurology
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The EU's #AIAct will have little direct implications for #research, but good practices of risk management could trickle down to #Science

#ai4science #EUpolicy #AI #Artificialintelligence

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00497-8

thomasjorgensen, to ai
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OpenAI and Arizona State University to develop a #chapgpt 'creative buddy'...

Lots of big words here, but I am still looking for the problem they are trying to solve.

It does not convince me about this use of #AI in #highered

#edtech

@BenPatrickWill

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/openai-announces-first-partnership-with-a-university.html

thomasjorgensen, to Bulgaria
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The association of Canada to #HorizonEU is a big win that many have dreamt about for years. In a time when #EU spending is become closer related to European policy goals, there will be a continuous trade-off between contribution to #horizoneurope and the priorities of the programme.

For now, the trade-off works.

#EUPolicy #SciencePolicy

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon-europe/canada-association-raises-questions-over-who-controls-horizon-europe

prachisrivas, to ai
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My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.

Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/after-year-chatgpt-academia-getting-grips-generative-ai

@academicchatter

thomasjorgensen,
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@prachisrivas @academicchatter

You might find this interesting https://youtu.be/idH7I7SCcQc?si=rHm48rR7HG1g_u_C

glynmoody, to random
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EU-wide digital wallet: MEPs reach deal with Council - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231106IPR09006/eu-wide-digital-wallet-meps-reach-deal-with-council this is an absolute disgrace, it will open up everyone in EU to invisible, unstoppable government surveillance. shame on @EU_Commission and @Europarl_EN #eidas #qwacs details: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/eu-tries-to-slip-in-new-powers-to-intercept-encrypted-web-traffic-without-anyone-noticing/

thomasjorgensen,
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@glynmoody @quincy @kkarhan I am not sure that I understand the issue: Does the use of one certificate make the issuer able to see everything that I do when not using that certificate?

thomasjorgensen,
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@glynmoody @quincy @kkarhan but that would be forbidden by existing laws, I could go to the ombudsmand, if this happened

thomasjorgensen,
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@quincy @glynmoody @kkarhan OK, but I also drive on the right side of the road. Sorry for being the devil's advocate here, but I am sincerely trying to understand

thomasjorgensen,
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@glynmoody @quincy @kkarhan I would not know if my phone is tapped, but the police/intelligence services would still need a warrant. Is this a technical issue or an issue of trusting the checks and balances within our political systems?

thomasjorgensen,
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@glynmoody @quincy @kkarhan In any case, if you want to do something political I would spin it like this: If you want this to work for example for banking, travelling or education, you need to ensure that citizens trust the system. This requires solid privacy guarantees, and then you say how to concretely solve the problem in the regulation.

thomasjorgensen,
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@glynmoody @quincy @kkarhan but is this the case for everything I do on my browser or only when I use services that requires that specific certificate?

thomasjorgensen,
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@kkarhan @glynmoody @quincy @torproject so yes, the issuer of these certificates would be able to see everything - also on sites that do not use these certificates, or no?

thomasjorgensen,
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@lobingera @kkarhan @quincy @glynmoody I have more questions: if this is not mandatory, could Google (that has both a wallet and a browser) not deny certificates from public wallets and force Chrome users to go to the Google Wallet and make it the de-facto universal wallet?

thomasjorgensen,
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@quincy @lobingera @kkarhan @glynmoody I prefer governments to Google

thomasjorgensen,
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@kkarhan @KatS @quincy @ErikJonker @glynmoody where I am beginning to understand is that making government certificates mandatory is a way to rein in big tech, but there would need the same kind of legal safeguards that prevent phone tapping and the police kicking in my door. I think that as a citizen, this would work for me

Mer__edith, to random
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Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:

“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”

https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/

thomasjorgensen,
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@Mer__edith exactly why it is so much more relaxing to use tools like Signal

DocCarms, (edited ) to books
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
@bookstodon

thomasjorgensen,
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@rakyat @DocCarms @bookstodon "Jeg havde en farm i Afrika, ved foden af bjerget Ngong"

And of course "In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit"

thomasjorgensen,
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@DocCarms I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong mountain - Karen Blixen (the rhythm gets lost in English)

rodolphe31, to random French
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"AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology", from @Mer__edith :
"These are ultimately surveillance systems that are being marketed to those who have power over us generally : our employers, governments, border control... to make determinations and predictions that will shape our access to resources and opportunities."
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/

via @sebsauvage : "#IA Les vendeurs de drogue, toujours la même tactique : La première dose est gratuite."
https://sebsauvage.net/links/?sMfilA

thomasjorgensen,
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@rodolphe31 @Mer__edith @sebsauvage using AI on personal/customer data is by nature surveillance, but lots of uses of AI on for example industrial or scientific data is not - let us not demonize a whole technology here

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@Mer__edith @rodolphe31 @sebsauvage my point was more general: yes, AI used for consumer data is surveillance, but AI used for cooling systems, protein folding and optimising astronomers' models of the universe is not.

thomasjorgensen, to Futurology
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Given that this was a #SOTEU at the end of the mandate, I found it pretty ambitious. What to watch from the #highereducation and #research perspective:

  • what are the implications of de-risking on research cooperation with #China?
  • is there any place for soft power in a geopolitical Europe?
  • can we talk about the #skills challenge without mentioning #lifelonglearning ?
  • enlargement!

#EUpolicy

thomasjorgensen, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Done with the report on in . A very good read!

What strikes me is the importance of understanding of the limits of and where a human in the loop is necessary.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/artificial-intelligence-in-science_a8d820bd-en

thomasjorgensen, to Futurology
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Busy morning celebrating the association of the UK to #horizoneurope

Really good news that will create a solid basis for #research cooperation in the future! UK is fully in for new calls from 2024.

#ScienceMastodon #Science #sciencepolicy #brexit

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_23_4375

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