Einstein refused to publish any more papers in the Physical Review, one of the world’s premier physics journals, after he received a negative critique of his paper in 1936. Being a distinguished physicist, Einstein was used to having his papers published without question. So, it shocked him to receive a negative critique of his paper on the non-existence of gravitational waves — a concept he had introduced himself. However, the critique wasn’t unwarranted; he published a revised version of his paper after he had realised an error on his part. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
