Ben WaberWe had some rain in Boston today, but that didn't stop me from listening to a bunch of talks for my #AacademicRunPlaylist! (1/11)
First was an interesting talk by Hila Lifshitz- Assaf on openness and collaboration in scientific research. This talk showcases the power of #crowdsourcing for innovation, but also how combining that approach with experts can often lead to better results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8wvvd4pvU (2/11)
Open Innovation in Science Conference keynote by Hila Lifshitz Assaf
Next was an amazing pair of talks by @armedchile (an ingenious method for combining high and low resource language data to build #LLMs that significantly improves translation performance) and Orevaoghene Ahia (subword tokenization effects on LLM costs/performance in different languages) at #Indaba2023. I'll be thinking about both talks for a long time - they have profound implications for the design of #GenerativeAI tech and business models. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVi9qB_1Ccw (3/11) #AI
Deep Learning Indaba DAY 6
Next was a great talk by @rajeshveera on the implementation of India's rural employment guarantee act at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, with excellent discussion by Zehra Hashmi, Rachel Brule, Robert Jenkins, and Vijayendra Rao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyF_OIa5G4o&t=2s (4/11) #India #economics
Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Next was a riveting talk by Harriet A. Washington on medical apartheid and bioethical erosion at the Harvard Medical School Center for #Bioethics. This is an essential talk, getting into the historical roots of racial mistreatment in US medical research and implications for contemporary ethical issues. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAhlHAx5Luw (5/11)
Medical Apartheid Goes Viral: How Infection Catalyzes Bioethical Erosion with Harriet Washington
Next was a short talk by Penny Spikins on the #evolution of #autism. This is an amazing examination of why autism likely evolved and the advantages it confers on groups. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb3x_ZzZTbE&t=2s (6/11) #anthropology
Evolution of human cognition - neurodiversity - autism example
Next was an engaging conversation with Kathelijne Koops on chimpanzee tool use on the Sage Social Science Bites podcast. Koops convincingly shows through field experiments that individual innovation is particularly challenging for chimps https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb2NpYWxzY2llbmNlYml0ZXMubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjRiMWVjMDAtZWY3ZS00YzQxLWIwN2QtNTY2MGUzZWI3ZWYy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQh9_e-Z6BAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA (7/11) #anthropology
Social Science Bites - Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools
Kathelijne Koops, a biological anthropologist at the University of Zurich, works to determine what makes us human. And she approaches this quest by intensely studying the use of tools by other species across sub-Saharan Africa. “Look at us now …” she tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. “We are really the ultimate technological species. And the question is, ‘How did we get to where we are now?’ If we want to know why we are so technological, and how do we acquire tool-use skills, etc., it’s really interesting to look at our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and also bonobos. “Why do, or don’t they use tools, and what do they use tools for, and what environmental pressures might influence their tool use.” So Koops has been studying, first as a grad student and now as director of her own lab, the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group at the University of Zurich, several groups of wild apes. (Chimps and bonobos, along with orangutans and…
Next was an important talk by Stephanie Creary on allyship in the workplace at INSEAD. Creary presents a good framework along with practical examples for folks to take into organizations immediately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIx7FrKHdQ (8/11) #work
Learning How to be an Ally for Black Colleagues
Next was a fantastic panel on the creation of #race at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with Brian Lowery, Andrew Curran, and Sidney Chalhoub. This is a deep dive into the origins of conceptions of race in areas of the world impacted by the African slave trade, and the conversation is extremely informative and powerful. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpnbYtDEACk (9/11)
Andrew Curran and Sidney Chalhoub on the Creation of Race, A Race and Power Conversation
Next was a provocative panel on unequal workplace power at the @epi. While I didn't agree with everything brought up here, these are some important perspectives on why it's important to increase worker power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H69oHmF-G-Q (10/11) #economics #unions
Centering Unequal Workplace Power
Last was an incredible talk by Ashleigh Shelby Rosette on #bias against Black women with natural hair at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business. This talk shows the significant bias against natural hair and clearly explains the harm that causes to Black women. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLgHVhHZkl0 (11/11)
