SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) – ERITREAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR POLICY AND STRATEGY (ERIPS)

History teaches us that scholars’ have influential roles in establishing national causes and advancing innovative technologies based on societal use-inspired needs. Scholars are crucial in establishing programs or strategies that address society-based advancements of science and scientific knowledge to better society. The Bush report in 1944 “Science, The Endless Frontier” [1] mandated by the USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt could be considered one of the successful contracts between the society-needs post-second world war, the scientific community, and the government of … Continue reading “Analysis of Scholarism: Research and Information Centre of Eritrea (RICE) and Rejuvenating The Eritrean Scientific Research Opportunities”

This year has held many things, among them bold claims of artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Industry commentators speculated that the language-generation model GPT-3 may have achieved “artificial general intelligence,” while others lauded Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind’s protein-folding algorithm—Alphafold—and its capacity to “transform biology.” While the basis of such claims is thinner than the effusive headlines, this hasn’t done much to dampen enthusiasm across the industry, whose profits and prestige are dependent on AI’s proliferation. It was against this backdrop that Google fired Timnit … Continue reading “Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI”