Presented at the 3rd #sdp2022
Artificial Intelligence is poised to impact many fields, but how will the rise of AI impact the way that we do science and scholarly work? Thomas Kuhn, in his philosophical analyses of sciences coined the term "paradigm shift" to describe the resultant progress in science theory when the normal science of an existing paradigm collides with theory-unaccountable, replicable observations. With scientists in AI still expecting key discoveries to be made, will we expect a new paradigm to overturn current normal science in AI and other fields? Will the age of accelerations, as defined by Thomas Friedman, hold sway over how real-world contexts are either accounted for or discarded by research practitioners and scholars alike?
I relate my perspective on how normal science and paradigm shifting science relate to the notion of research, fast and slow, and how scholarly document processing can facilitate the mean and variance in science discovery. I give an opinionated view of the importance of scholarly document processing, as a meta-research agenda that can either aid thoughtful slow research, or be leveraged to further exacerbate acceleration of normal science.