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Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform. For safety reasons, donations can only be made in cryptocurrencies but the pledges include a drive to open source the project and the introduction of artificial intelligence to discover new hypotheses.
[...] A new campaign launched by Elbakyan on Saturday hopes to encourage people to contribute to the site's future, promising "dramatic improvements" over the next few years in return.
In addition to offering enhanced search features and a mobile app, Sci-Hub is pledging developments that include the open sourcing of the project. Also of interest is the pledge to introduce an artificial intelligence component that should make better use of the masses of knowledge hosted by Sci-Hub.
"Sci-Hub engine will [be] powered by artificial intelligence. Neural Networks will read scientific texts, extract ideas and make inferences and discover new hypotheses," Elbakyan reveals.
The overall goal of the next few years is to boost content availability too, expanding from hosting "the majority of research articles" available today to include "any scientific document ever published."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @06:45AM
a couple of points:
why would you need funds to make something open source?
you just add the desired license to the archive, and put it in a public repository somewhere. it takes ten minutes if you've never done it before, but know how to use a forum.
the people behind arXiv have been doing automated sifting through data etc for quite some time, and they also have a lot of articles (most in plain text).
that's a serious research team with quite some brainpower.
and yet they're not claiming to use AI for new scientific discoveries. I specifically asked Paul Ginsparg this, because in his talk he mentioned a posteriori examinations of breakthrough papers (they can be seen as "papers from field A using a lot of terminology from field B, showing previously unknown connections). And he didn't seem like a modest guy.