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View article: Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists
Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists Open
New biodiversity and ecosystem reporting frameworks require companies to collect data on multifaceted impacts on complex ecological systems over space and time while offering them limited guidance on how to do so. Artificial Intelligence (…
View article: AI for social good
AI for social good Open
This article describes the Generative AI Education ( GenAIE) programme: using generative AI (GenAI) to provide personalized education to disadvantaged people, notably probationers and prisoners. For the UK Probation and Prison Service, Gen…
View article: Opportunities and challenges to community-level adoption of natural climate solutions in Washington State
Opportunities and challenges to community-level adoption of natural climate solutions in Washington State Open
Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) are climate mitigation approaches that aim to incorporate sustainable practices in forest, agriculture, wetland, and grassland management to increase GHG mitigation from land sectors and have been estimated …
View article: Assessing Language Models' Worldview for Fiction Generation
Assessing Language Models' Worldview for Fiction Generation Open
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become ubiquitous, with abundant applications in computational creativity. One such application is fictional story generation. Fiction is a narrative that occurs in a story world that is slightly…
View article: Watching Popular Musicians Learn by Ear: A Hypothesis-Generating Study of Human-Recording Interactions in YouTube Videos
Watching Popular Musicians Learn by Ear: A Hypothesis-Generating Study of Human-Recording Interactions in YouTube Videos Open
Popular musicians often learn music by ear. It is unclear what role technology plays for those with experience at this task. In search of opportunities for the development of novel human-recording interactions, we analyze 18 YouTube videos…
View article: TruthEval: A Dataset to Evaluate LLM Truthfulness and Reliability
TruthEval: A Dataset to Evaluate LLM Truthfulness and Reliability Open
Large Language Model (LLM) evaluation is currently one of the most important areas of research, with existing benchmarks proving to be insufficient and not completely representative of LLMs' various capabilities. We present a curated colle…
View article: A Study on Large Language Models' Limitations in Multiple-Choice Question Answering
A Study on Large Language Models' Limitations in Multiple-Choice Question Answering Open
The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become commonplace, particularly with the emergence of open-source models. More importantly, smaller models are well-suited for integration into consumer devices and are frequentl…
View article: Tales from the Other Side: Librarians and Vendors Get Real
Tales from the Other Side: Librarians and Vendors Get Real Open
Three professionals who have worked as vendors and as librarians throughout their careers discussed overlapping competencies for both roles. These were outlined as adaptive negotiation, managing and prioritizing tasks, optimizing the libra…
View article: Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania
Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania Open
Land inequality stalls economic development, entrenches poverty, and is associated with environmental degradation. Yet, rigorous assessments of land-use interventions attend to inequality only rarely. A land inequality lens is especially i…
View article: Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania
Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania Open
Reference Sullivan J.A., Samii, C., Brown, D., Moyo, F., Agrawal, A. 2023. Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2207398120. https://doi.org/…
View article: Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania
Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania Open
Reference Sullivan J.A., Samii, C., Brown, D., Moyo, F., Agrawal, A. 2023. Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2207398120. https://doi.org/…
View article: Reliability Check: An Analysis of GPT-3's Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording
Reliability Check: An Analysis of GPT-3's Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording Open
Large language models (LLMs) have become mainstream technology with their versatile use cases and impressive performance. Despite the countless out-of-the-box applications, LLMs are still not reliable. A lot of work is being done to improv…
View article: The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush
The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush Open
Increases in the number of large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), commonly known as ‘land grabbing’ or ‘global land rush,’ have occurred throughout the lower- and middle-income world over the past two decades. Despite substantial and conti…
View article: Reliability Check: An Analysis of GPT-3’s Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording
Reliability Check: An Analysis of GPT-3’s Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording Open
Large language models (LLMs) have become mainstream technology with their versatile use cases and impressive performance. Despite the countless out-of-the-box applications, LLMs are still not reliable. A lot of work is being done to improv…
View article: Crowd Score: A Method for the Evaluation of Jokes using Large Language Model AI Voters as Judges
Crowd Score: A Method for the Evaluation of Jokes using Large Language Model AI Voters as Judges Open
This paper presents the Crowd Score, a novel method to assess the funniness of jokes using large language models (LLMs) as AI judges. Our method relies on inducing different personalities into the LLM and aggregating the votes of the AI ju…
View article: CCDC 2208812: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 2208812: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania
Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania Open
Improving agricultural productivity is a foundational sustainability challenge in the 21st century. Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) have important effects on both well-being and the environment in the Global South. Their impacts on a…
View article: Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania
Replication Data & Code - Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities in Tanzania Open
Data & Code will be made available by August 25th. Article Abstract Land inequality stalls economic development, entrenches poverty, and is associated with environmental degradation. Yet rigorous assessments of land-use interventions atten…
View article: Integrating Equity Considerations into Agent-Based Modeling: A Conceptual Framework and Practical Guidance
Integrating Equity Considerations into Agent-Based Modeling: A Conceptual Framework and Practical Guidance Open
Advancing equity is a complex challenge for society, science, and policy. Agent-based models are
\nincreasingly used as scientific tools to advance understanding of systems, inform decision-making, and share
\nknowledge. Yet, equity has no…
View article: Computational Creativity and Aesthetics with Algorithmic Information Theory
Computational Creativity and Aesthetics with Algorithmic Information Theory Open
We build an analysis based on the Algorithmic Information Theory of computational creativity and extend it to revisit computational aesthetics, thereby, improving on the existing efforts of its formulation. We discuss Kolmogorov complexity…
View article: Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis
Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis Open
We apply Context-free Grammars (CFG) to measure the structural information content of a symbolic music string. CFGs are appropriate to this domain because they highlight hierarchical patterns, and their dictionary of rules can be used for …
View article: On the Problem of Small Objects
On the Problem of Small Objects Open
We discuss how to assess computationally the aesthetic value of “small” objects, namely those that have short digital descriptions. Such small objects still matter: they include headlines, poems, song lyrics, short musical scripts and othe…
View article: Kilimo Kikubwa
Kilimo Kikubwa Open
Dataset Overview This dataset is associated with a pre-print article "Deep Learning for Monitoring Large-Scale Croplands in sub-Saharan Africa" and consists of land-use/land cover classifications of known Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSL…
View article: Kilimo Kikubwa
Kilimo Kikubwa Open
Dataset Overview This dataset is associated with a pre-print article "Deep Learning for Monitoring Large-Scale Croplands in sub-Saharan Africa" and consists of land-use/land cover classifications of known Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSL…
View article: Let the farmer decide: examining smallholder autonomy in large-scale land acquisitions with an agent-based model
Let the farmer decide: examining smallholder autonomy in large-scale land acquisitions with an agent-based model Open
Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) can facilitate agricultural intensification in low- and middle-income countries, but they frequently dispossess smallholders of their land and thereby generate tradeoffs between market-oriented product…
View article: Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation
Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation Open
Global drivers and carbon emissions associated with large-scale land transactions have been poorly investigated. Here we examine major factors behind such transactions (income, agricultural productivity, availability of arable land and wat…
View article: Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis
Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis Open
We apply Context-free Grammars (CFG) to measure the structural information content of a symbolic music string. CFGs are appropriate to this domain because they highlight hierarchical patterns, and their dictionary of rules can be used for …
View article: Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia Open
Large-scale land transactions (LSLTs) can precipitate dramatic changes in land systems. Ethiopia has experienced one of the largest amounts of LSLTs in Africa, yet their effects on local land systems are poorly understood. In this study, w…
View article: Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis
Grammar-based compression and its use in symbolic music analysis Open
We apply Context-free Grammars (CFG) to measure the structural information content of a symbolic music string. CFGs are appropriate to this domain because they highlight hierarchical patterns, and their dictionary of rules can be used for …