From FOMO to AI: Roger radmanovic on the returns and risk of artificial intelligence
At the age of 12, ProQuest CTO read every book.Today, he discussed the benefits of technology and responsibility, and can help people to achieve such lofty goals.
Editor's note: this editorial was originally published in ACRL policy, politics and international relationsPart of theIn the spring of 2019 communication.
By Roger tile radmanovic, chief technology officer, ProQuest
When I was 12 years old, I'm an avid reader, I could pick up this trait from my grandmother, grandmother in the block of insomnia devouring books.I spent evenings, weekends and holidays to scan the page as much as possible - Stephen king, tolkien, asimov - into my brain, because consciousness can afford.Pepsi has stimulated demand of coffee before my coffee.Sleepy, I'll take a rest, wash a face in cold water, I hope I can enjoy as much time as possible, Michigan, dark reading friendly winter night.9. And, in my night m after curfew, I would put the tube socks to the door, prevent the lamp light away from the parents' monitoring.
One of my goals is to read every book ever written, I'm sorry to quickly realized that my reading speed can't keep up with the reading list.Good, very good, I must be more selective.How to read the best books?I should be widely read many authors and many of the genre, or focus on an author or region?FOMO, or "the fear of missing out on", it is not advertising campaign in the 1980 s, but I'm really, really afraid to miss.
Fast forward for decades, the books I read percentage declines linearly.I asked our relevant team for the past five years in the United States to report a new book.Since 2014, has published more than 2 million new book.In 2018, that figure jumped to nearly 3.4 million.Look at my reading log, I only read 15 books.
I'm addicted to this story, because it is the same as the dilemma of modern researchers, although this problem in the study nature much worse.Tried to maintain a status update to the publication of the amount of material is it is impossible to man.ProQuest platform, only we are hosting more than 1 billion documents, from the newspaper this morning to write books of the 15th century.Since Eugene Bauer university since the microfilm was founded in 1938, we have been studying this problem, the dream to make a movie and miniature world of knowledge, with catalytic its spread and spread.
To help researchers find the content they seek - whether to illuminate a hunch, point to a new direction, or provide a frustrating - is our fundamental mission, we usually focus on the content, search tools and workflows.Today, however, you can't see a baseball game or prime-time programs (I think they still exist), didn't also hear or artificial intelligence, machine learning, and how to fuel your exercise, improve your commute/food/play list, or the power of your business.
I was 12 years old children asked me now before each Michigan wolverine basketball game, ESPN application to predict who will win the game - we watched victory probability updated in real time on TV.The new technology is applied to the analysis of the text, images, video, and raw data, procedure and algorithm is an exciting new assets such as real.In ProQuest, we cooperate with college students, using open source tools to analyze newspaper content, the page into their component, eliminate Paris, TX,From Paris,Reports of clinical trials, assessment report.
When I was studying literature, these choices.I needlessly jealous of today's students, because they can answer a question, need a week's time with paper and pen operation in a few minutes with laptops and laptop Jupyter interaction.You don't have to read all the books - you can read them, build a model of abstract them, maybe you can also use the entity extraction, emotion analysis and modeling of themes to answer some interesting questions about them.Too bright.Let these new technologies, however, bear is also a delicate surgery operation.
For example, some of our drug safety services enable workflow is associated with the process of government regulation.The negative impact of the lack of clinical test report is not an option.How do we build the model, in a transparent, without prejudice, safely guide researchers?Artificial intelligence personnel based on false content development characteristic examples abound, obviously these are early.However, these new methods of hope is strong.
In February 2019Month of the New York timesIn an article, drug discovery, a researcher at Derek lowe said, "the machine is not to replace the chemist.This is a chemist who use machine will replace those who do not use.We use these machines will only become more complicated.
Microsoft's chief executive, MrThe tower,, wrote in his book "click refresh" : "AI must be transparent.All of us, rather than just technical experts, should understand the principle and technical rules.We not only want to intelligent machines, machines and want to understand;Is not only a artificial intelligence, but a symbiotic intelligence.
Artificial intelligence for decades has been a dream, but now the cloud computing and big data reality finally realized some of the dream.However, should we fear ai futurists always predict negative consequences?You will be a AI lock with HAL 9000 properties on the outside of the home, car, or computer?Stanford university's "artificial intelligence research in one hundred" in 2016, according to the report, "and the mass media, on the other hand, for the forecast of the more wonderful of artificial intelligence research team found that there is no reason to worry about artificial intelligence of an imminent threat to mankind.
In order to confirm, I asked whether Alec, like Siri.Alec's answer?"My bias in favor of all of the Ais.This is a good place to start.