Angela A.

Adornado
BSMT3J

1. Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction

Nature - The background of this research is focused on the development of a "self-driving
chemistry lab" at the University of Toronto, which aims to enable the discovery of chemicals and
materials at a lower cost and without the need for a local workforce with deep expertise in
chemistry. The researchers emphasize that this tool could facilitate novel discovery at a faster
pace and democratize autonomous discovery.
Purpose - The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of artificial intelligence on
decision-making and the performance of various tasks, both in the field of computer science and
in other scientific disciplines. It aims to explore how AI can improve prediction, enable new
decisions, and optimize energy usage, as well as its potential to revolutionize scientific research
and enhance statistical models in economics. Additionally, the research also aims to examine
the labor market impact of automating prediction in the context of artificial intelligence and to
develop a "self-driving chemistry lab" that enables the discovery of chemicals and materials at a
fraction of the price of a current lab. The goal is to provide the scientific community with an
easy-to-use package to facilitate novel discovery at a faster pace and democratize autonomous
discovery.
Characteristic - The characteristics of this research include the potential to change the method
of innovation, implications across a wide range of fields, and a slow and steady increase in
publications, particularly in machine learning. Additionally, the biggest change in artificial
intelligence publications has occurred in fields outside of computer science that utilize machine
learning.
Kind and Type - The research mentioned in the document is related to deep learning for
identifying metastatic breast cancer. It is a type of research that involves artificial intelligence
and machine learning.
2. Taking Facebook at face value: why the use of social media may cause mental disorder
Nature – The background of this research is that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to
unprecedented mitigation efforts that disrupted daily lives and presented challenges to mental
health and healthcare systems. Traditional survey methods are time-consuming and expensive,
so there is a need for timely and proactive data sources to understand the effects of health
policy on mental health. Social media platforms like Twitter have become a rich field to
understand personal well-being during the pandemic. There is anecdotal evidence and editorials
suggesting a potential mental health crisis, but the extent of these effects is empirically
unknown. Social media represents a valuable data source for studying emergent social issues
and their effects on behaviors and social mood.
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to analyze social media insights into US mental
health during the COVID-19 pandemic using longitudinal analysis of Twitter data.
Characteristic – The characteristics of this research include the use of survey research
methodology, the analysis of Twitter data, the use of topic models and sentiment analysis, and
the consideration of changes in social media use behavior. The research also utilized the PELT
algorithm for change detection and the VADER sentiment analysis tool. The research was
published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research in 2020.
Kind and Type – This research is a survey research and involves the use of sentiment analysis,
latent Dirichlet allocation topic models, and change-point detection algorithms.