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Philosophie, Ethik und ReligionswissenschaftEnglisch
Veröffentlicht in Imperfect notes on an imperfect world

An AI prompt might suggest starting the note with a reference to these being ‘interesting times’. These are certainly eventful, fateful times, but how interesting? As opposed to simply being stupid and dangerous? Brittleness makes breaking more likely, one can be shocked by the shocking, but whether one should be surprised by it is a different matter.

Medienwissenschaften und KommunikationswissenschaftenEnglisch
Veröffentlicht in the modern peer
Autor Sam Van Gele

Publishing Open Access (OA) has always been something important to me. It stems from my utopian belief that science should be for everyone and that the funders (taxpayers) should have access to it. Most of my publications are Open Access, something I was somewhat proud of as a novice researcher.

Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyAndere Technische WissenschaftenEnglisch
Veröffentlicht in The Connected Ideas Project
Autor Alexander Titus

The first time I saw AlphaFold, it felt like stepping into the future, a moment where something previously thought impossible had suddenly become inevitable. AI had cracked the protein-folding problem. Well, not cracked exactly, but solved it well enough that it rewrote the playbook for structural biology. Overnight, the way we thought about proteins, drug discovery, and molecular engineering shifted. That was 2018.

Arbeit + KreativwirtschaftPolitik + RechtUrheberrechtUrteileBirkenstockRechtswissenschaften
Veröffentlicht in iRights.info
Autor Betim Neziraj

Birkenstock-Sandalen gelten nicht als Werke der angewandten Kunst und genießen somit keinen Urheberrechtsschutz. Das hat der Bundesgerichtshof nun festgestellt. Der Unterschied zwischen technisch-handwerklicher Gestaltung und künstlerischem Schaffen ist dabei wesentlich. Betim Neziraj zu Inhalt und Bedeutung des Urteils.

NewsGeisteswissenschaftenEnglisch
Veröffentlicht in Upstream
Autor Adam Buttrick

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infrastructure) to support the first phase of a community-driven infrastructure for making persistent identifier (PID) metadata better and more complete.