Your browser doesn't support javascript.
loading
Mostrar: 20 | 50 | 100
Resultados 1 - 5 de 5
Filtrar
Más filtros

Banco de datos
País/Región como asunto
Tipo del documento
Intervalo de año de publicación
1.
Nature ; 627(8002): 49-58, 2024 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38448693

RESUMEN

Scientists are enthusiastically imagining ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools might improve research. Why are AI tools so attractive and what are the risks of implementing them across the research pipeline? Here we develop a taxonomy of scientists' visions for AI, observing that their appeal comes from promises to improve productivity and objectivity by overcoming human shortcomings. But proposed AI solutions can also exploit our cognitive limitations, making us vulnerable to illusions of understanding in which we believe we understand more about the world than we actually do. Such illusions obscure the scientific community's ability to see the formation of scientific monocultures, in which some types of methods, questions and viewpoints come to dominate alternative approaches, making science less innovative and more vulnerable to errors. The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less. By analysing the appeal of these tools, we provide a framework for advancing discussions of responsible knowledge production in the age of AI.


Asunto(s)
Inteligencia Artificial , Ilusiones , Conocimiento , Proyectos de Investigación , Investigadores , Humanos , Inteligencia Artificial/provisión & distribución , Inteligencia Artificial/tendencias , Cognición , Difusión de Innovaciones , Eficiencia , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Proyectos de Investigación/normas , Proyectos de Investigación/tendencias , Riesgo , Investigadores/psicología , Investigadores/normas
3.
Soc Stud Sci ; 47(1): 75-94, 2017 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28195030

RESUMEN

Science and technology studies (STS) and critical cartography are both asking questions about the ontological fixity of maps and other scientific objects. This paper examines how a group of NASA computer scientists who call themselves The Mapmakers conceptualizes and creates maps in service of different commitments. The maps under construction are those of alien Mars, produced through partnerships that NASA has established with Google and Microsoft. With the goal of bringing an experience of Mars to as many people as possible, these maps influence how we imagine our neighbouring planet. This paper analyzes two attributes of the map, evident in both its representation and the attending cartographic practices: a sense of Mars as dynamic and a desire for a democratic experience of Mars in which up-to-date Mars data can be intuitively accessed not only by scientists but by lay users as well. Whereas a democratic Mars promises users the ability to decide how to interact with the map and understand Mars, dynamic Mars imposes a more singular sense of Mars as a target of continued robotic and maybe even human exploration. Because maps of Mars have a different (and arguably less complex) set of social and political commitments than those of Earth, they help us see how different goals contradict and complement each other in matters of exploration and state-craft relevant both to other worlds and our own.


Asunto(s)
Mapeo Geográfico , Marte , Medio Ambiente Extraterrestre , Estados Unidos , United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
5.
Technol Cult ; 56(1): 54-85, 2015 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26334697

RESUMEN

This article introduces the concept of the sociotechnical projectory to explore the importance of future-oriented discourse in technical practice. It examines the case of two flagship NASA missions that, since the 1960s, have been continually proposed and deferred. Despite the missions never being flown, it argues that they produced powerful effects within the planetary science community as assumed "end-points" to which all current technological, scientific, and community efforts are directed. It asserts that attention to the social construction of technological systems requires historical attention to how actors situate themselves with respect to a shared narrative of the future.


Asunto(s)
Vuelo Espacial/historia , Tecnología/historia , United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Marte , Vuelo Espacial/economía , Estados Unidos
SELECCIÓN DE REFERENCIAS
DETALLE DE LA BÚSQUEDA