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In Conversation with Artificial Intelligence: Aligning language Models with Human Values
Large-scale language technologies are increasingly used in various forms of communication with humans across different contexts. One particular use...
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Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history
Personalised nutrition (PN) has emerged over the past twenty years as a promising area of research in the postgenomic era and has been popularized as...
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Quantitative Data and Hermeneutic Methods in the Digital Classics
In an essay published in Digital Humanities Quarterly in 2013, H. Porsdam argues for the need to find the right balance between qualitative and...
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Authorship and Rights Ownership in the Machine Translation Era
A translation of a text of any kind is a derivative intellectual work. It involves a transformation of the original text, and therefore it is a right...
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Creativity and Style in GAN and AI Art: Some Art-historical Reflections
This paper explores the intersection of art history and AI technology. Special attention is paid to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a machine...
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The Ethics of Machine Translation
Language technologies are gradually turning into key modalities of our algorithmic present and future. Real world texts embed patterns and patterns...
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The Age of the Intelligent Machine: Singularity, Efficiency, and Existential Peril
Machine learning, and more broadly artificial intelligence (AI), is a fascinating technology and can be considered as the closest approximation to...
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The ‘good’ of extending fertility: ontology and moral reasoning in a biotemporal regime of reproduction
Since the emergence of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a specific set of technologies has been developed to address the problem of the ‘biological...
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Between “better than” and “as good as”: mobilizing social representations of alternative proteins to transform meat and dairy consumption practices
This article is concerned with the dynamic of social change in the domain of food consumption and seeks to understand the role played by social...
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Conceptions of scientific progress in scientific practice: an empirical study
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate over the nature of scientific progress in philosophy of science by taking a quantitative,...
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How Can I Contribute? Citizen Engagement in the Development of Nanotechnology for Health
Scholars and policymakers have increasingly advocated to engage citizens more substantially in the development of science and technology. However, to...
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Artificial Intelligence: A Case for Ethical Design and Multidisciplinarity
Autonomous and intelligent systems and services that use narrow artificial intelligence technologies such as statistical learning and limited...
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Technology and the Lifeworld in Miguel Baptista Pereira
The aim of this article is to address several technology-related topics in the work of Miguel Baptista Pereira, a Portuguese twentieth-century...
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Communication Challenges in Modern Social Practices
Communication[aut]Communication challenges to the twenty-first century humankind are as serious as materialistic ones. Search for meaning, the...
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The God of Artefacts: Vico’s Principle and Technology
In this chapter the author argues that modern technology rests on the axiom formulated by Giambattista Vico, the famous verum ipsum factum, verum...
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Infosphere, Datafication, and Decision-Making Processes in the AI Era
A recent interpretation of artificial intelligence (AI) (Floridi
2013 ,2022 ) suggests that the implementation of AI demands the investigation of the... -
Critical Questions About Scientific Research Publications in the Online Mask Debate
Successful management of sociotechnical issues like those raised by the COVID-19 pandemic requires members of the public to use scientific research...
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Post-Phenomenology, Transduction, and Speculative Fabulations
This response briefly argues that post-phenomenology has always cut across the transcendental-empirical divide and is able to cultivate a deep...
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Wider Markets
The global market for neurotechnology products had been estimated by various market prediction bodies at around $3 billion in 2020 and has been...