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Dudas y desafíos de la Inteligencia Artificial

El profesor del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Alexandre Bergel, analiza algunos de los desafíos que actualmente enfrenta el desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial en el mundo, las dudas que se generan y los beneficios que podría traer.

Software desarrollado por egresados permite predecir riesgo delictual

El desarrollo de algoritmos capaces de predecir zonas urbanas con mayor "riesgo criminal", es la labor que realizan estudiantes del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, a partir de un software que puede ayudar en la generación de políticas públicas para esta materia. El trabajo se concentró en verificar zonas, y no delitos específicos, para calzar con los preceptos del Plan Cuadrante de Carabineros.

Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

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In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both candidates, but largely followed Donald Trump’s agenda.

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16 Aug 2017

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OpenSpending platform update

Introduction
OpenSpending is a free, open and global platform to search, visualise, and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere. This week, we soft launched an updated technical platform, with a newly designed landing page. Until now dubbed “OpenSpending Next”, this is a completely new iteration on the previous version of OpenSpending, which has been in use since 2011.
Landing page at https://openspending.org
 

Using the Global Open Data Index to strengthen open data policies: Best practices from Mexico

This is a blog post coauthored with Enrique Zapata, of the Mexican National Digital Strategy.
As part of the last Global Open Data Index (GODI), Open Knowledge International (OKI) decided to have a dialogue phase, where we invited individuals, CSOs, and national governments to exchange different points of view, knowledge about the data and understand data publication in a more useful way.

Digital research politics

Digitalisation changes science and research. This simple insight is also present in the programs of German parties, although not to the same extent and with different foci. Which German parties... MORE

Canada approves first cryptocurrency sale in property rights shake-up

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United States

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Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions

 and  in Perspectives on Psychological Science: “In recent years, policy makers worldwide have begun to acknowledge the potential value of insights from psychology and behavioral economics into how people make decisions.

Crowdsourcing citizen science: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and users

Jamie Woodcock et al in the Journal of Peer Production: “This paper explores the relationship between paid labour and unpaid users within the Zooniverse, a crowdsourced citizen science platform. The platform brings together a crowd of users to categorise data for use in scientific projects.

If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?

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United States

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Open & Shut

Harsha Devulapalli: “Welcome to Open & Shut — a new blog dedicated to exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with open data in closed societies around the world.

The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars

Most people I talk to think that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies should take down ugly-but-legal user speech. Platforms are generally applauded for taking down racist posts from the White Nationalist demonstrators in Charlottesville, for example. I see plenty of disagreement about exactly what user-generated content should come down -- breastfeeding images? Passages from Lolita? Passages from Mein Kampf? But few really oppose the basic predicate of these removals: that private companies can and should be arbiters of permissible speech on their platforms.*

Why is the Internet Like a Cell Phone? Carpenter v. U.S

If your cell phone is on, your location is known, tracked and recorded, whether you are in your home or in public. As you move around, your location history is created and stored by the carrier, numerous applications on the device, and potentially even the manufacturer of the device or operating system provider. Your consent to capture this information, whether rough location or very granular,  may be tacit, inherent in the application’s usage, or freely given when you activate, install or operate the device.
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United States

Inside the Lab That’s Quantifying Happiness

Rowan Jacobsen at Outside: “In Mississippi, people tweet about cake and cookies an awful lot; in Colorado, it’s noodles. In Mississippi, the most-tweeted activity is eating; in Colorado, it’s running, skiing, hiking, snowboarding, and biking, in that order. In other words, the two states fall on opposite ends of the behavior spectrum.

​NTU names senior leadership team to support incoming President Professor Subra Suresh

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Where’s the ‘Civic’ in CivicTech?

Blog by Pius Enywaru: “The ideology of community participation and development is a crucial topic for any nation or community seeking to attain sustainable development. Here in Uganda, oftentimes when the opportunity for public participation either in local planning or in holding local politicians to account — the ‘don’t care’ attitude reigns….
What works?

Data-cards – a design pattern

Cross-posted on smth.uk

Charlottesville is reshaping the fight against online hate

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United States

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Should web-hosting companies restrict who's on their platforms?

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United States

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Date published: August 14, 2017CNN Tech""Legally, they don't have any responsibility around this, unless it's a federal crime [such as child pornography] or intellectual property," Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told CNN Tech."

We need a safe space for policy failure

Catherine Althaus & David Threlfall in The Mandarin: “Who remembers Google Schemer, the Apple Pippin, or Microsoft Zune? No one — and yet such no-go ideas didn’t hold back these prominent companies. In IT, such high profile failures are simply steps on the path to future success.