SUMMARY The Constitutional Convention elections of May 16th spoke loudly and clearly, giving decisive support to independent representatives over political parties, while at the same time shifting politically to the left. The composition of the new Constitutional Convention raises a number of important questions about the future of the economic model, such as the opportunities…
SUMMARY The IEEE WIE LATAM Alliance is a collaboration between different non-profit affinity groups present in various Latin American countries, mainly seeking to maintain close contact between all these organizations in order to strengthen the work towards a more equitable and inclusive path for women and girls in the STEM field. Big Data: The power…
ABSTRACT Conversation on organized crime patterns in the urban margins of Latin America. The speakers will examine the cases of Argentina, Chile and Peru, giving an account of the challenges faced by the States to control the spread of crime. SPEAKERS Javier Auyero, Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas at Austin. Lucia Dammert,…
ABSTRACT Hate speech is an important problem that is seriously affecting the dynamics and usefulness of online social communities. Large scale social platforms are currently investing important resources into automatically detecting and classifying hateful content, without much success. On the other hand, the results reported by state-of-the-art systems indicate that supervised approaches achieve almost perfect…
ABSTRACT Respondent-Driven sampling (RDS) is a network-based sampling method devised to overcome challenges with sampling hard-to-reach human populations. The sampling starts with a limited number of individuals who are asked to recruit a small number of their contacts. Every surveyed individual is subsequently given the same opportunity to recruit additional members of the target population…
SUMMARY The IDEAIS Seminars are part of the monthly seminars that aim to address topics related to the IDEAIS network: Intelligent assistants for spatial data infrastructures. These will be related to artificial intelligence, spatial data infrastructure, spatial and spatio-temporal data management in general, with a focus on carrying out activities open to the general community….
SUMMARY: The Open Government Academic Network invites you to participate in the RAGA Chile 2021 discussions: Webinar “Main challenges of Open Government in the era of Artificial Intelligence”. PRESENTERS: Alejandro Barros, Master’s in Computer Science, Universidad de Chile. Former Executive Secretary of the Digital Strategy – Chile. International consultant. Associate Academic at the Public Systems…
SUMMARY: The Social Listening Lab of the UC School of Communications analyzed Twitter data associated with the accounts of presidential candidates. What is their interaction network? How is the influence of each account within the network measured? Can we truly understand their real relevance on social media? We invite you to a conversation around these…
SUMMARY Forum organized in the context of the Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Human Behavior – DIACH, organized jointly by the DICTA foundation and the Center for Research in Cognitive Sciences of the Universidad de Talca. PRESENTERS Dr. Barbara Poblete, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile Dr. Elizabeth Tapia, Director of…
SUMMARY Since its implementation in Chile in the 1970s and its spread throughout the rest of the world, neoliberalism became the hegemonic development model, surviving economic crises and massive social mobilizations. What explains this resilience? What is the relationship between this resilience and the problems democracy faces today? How can democracies survive an increasingly authoritarian…
SUMMARY: Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a technological disruption that affects our daily lives, whether we have noticed it or not. In fact, it can be said that for many people AI has become indispensable. However, public knowledge about the specifics of AI and what this means both for our daily…
ABSTRACT This LatinX in AI (LXAI) social is aimed at LatinX individuals working on or interested in AI with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin. Those already working in AI will have the opportunity to connect with fellow LatinX and make their own work known, while those new to the…
SUMMARY International perspectives for a better Constitution. After the election of its 155 members, the Chilean Constitutional Convention will meet at the Palacio Pereira, will proceed to elect its President and Vice President, and will then have to approve, by a 2/3 vote of its members, its own “rules of procedure,” that is, the provisions…
ABSTRACT In the first part we cover four current specific challenges: (1) discrimination (e.g., facial recognition, justice, sharing economy, language models); (2) phrenology (e.g., bio-metric based predictions); (3) unfair digital commerce (e.g., exposure and popularity bias); and (4) stupid models (e.g., Signal, minimal adversarial AI). These examples do have a personal bias but set the…
ABSTRACT This presentation discusses findings of a three-year research project studying incivility and deliberation. A content analysis of 22,000 user comments posted on Chilean news websites identified factors that promote incivility, such as controversial news topics, and politics. The project also shows which demographic groups are more likely to be targeted by hate speech (spoiler…