I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen (a philosopher who completed her PhD in 2025 on AI and ethics, including discussions of art and working life), Knut Ørke (Norwegian as a second language), and Holger Pötzsch (a professor of media studies with many years of research on digital media, video games, disruption, and working life, among other topics). This is not about preventing researchers from exploring AI methods in their research. It is about not uncritically accepting the hype that everyone must use AI everywhere without critical reflection. It is about not introducing Copilot as the default option in word processors, or training PhD candidates to believe they will fall behind if they do not use AI when writing articles, without proper academic discussion. Changes like these should be knowledge-based and discussed academically, not merely decided administratively, because they alter the epistemological foundations of research. Maria wrote to me a couple of months ago because she had read my opinion piece in Aftenposten in which I called for a strong brake on the use of language models in knowledge work. She was part of a committee tasked with developing UiT’s AI strategy and was concerned because there was so much hype and so few members of the committee with actual expertise in AI. I fully support the petition. There are probably some good uses for AI in research, but the uncritical, hype-driven insistence that we must simply adopt it everywhere is highly risky. There are many researchers in Norway with strong expertise in AI, language, ethics, working life, and culture. We must make use of this expertise. This is also partly about respect for research in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, and law. Introducing AI at universities and university colleges is not merely a technical issue, and perhaps not even primarily a technical one. It concerns much more: philosophy of science, methodological reflection, epistemology, writing, publishing, the working environment, and more. […]
Dennis G. Jerz
Microsoft has the answer for you…
Jean
Frauenhofer has been working on this: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,57317,00.html
Dunno if there’s anything available yet though
dr. b.
Purdue Engineers have come up with an image search engine . If we are lucky they’ll work on the audio one next. That will solve the problem of songs being stuck in our heads that we can’t remember fully.
HÂkon Styri
Some people the apparently used to work for Yamaha worked on some music recognition stuff, but they changed their plans and started working on a copyright cop bot (or whatever).
http://digme.typepad.com/blogg/2004/03/lydmagi.html (in norwegian)
Jill
This is wonderful! Thank you! I can’t wait till all these tools are actually out there!
As it was I found the song by searching through iTunes, where it turned out that I had cleverly given the song in question a five star rating while listening to it on my shiny new iPod. I did have quite a few duds before finding the right tune though.
Eli Chapman
You might try Shazam. I don’t know if you can sing a song to them, but it does work if you play a song you want to know the name of into a cell phone.
Jill
That is so cool! Here’s the consumer’s site for Shazam, too. It’s not even awesomely expensive – 59p a go. Only in the UK, though.
Why hasn’t it hit Norway yet, I wonder?
Daniel
and if you know some of the lyric:
“need a little time to wake up” +lyrics
in google and you are a bit closer…
James Sherrett
Over here in Canada, we rely on the Sad Goat to sort out the songs that whirl ’round our heads and whose title we can’t remember. The Sad Goat is a 1-800 hundred toll-free phone number for Richardson’s Roundup, a national radio show on the public broadcaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.cbc.ca/roundup/
identity
audiosearch
…and it needs to tell you where to get the album, in case it’s an old song….