{"id":6105,"date":"2014-09-10T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2014-09-10T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:26:22","slug":"giving-algorithms-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/10\/giving-algorithms-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving algorithms the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/schumpeter\">Schumpeter<\/a> column reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/deepknowledgeventures.com\"><em>Deep Knowledge Ventures<\/em><\/a>, a Hong Kong venture-capital outfit, has appointed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2014\/05\/prweb11847458.htm\">algorithm<\/a> to its board of directors. \u00a0VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences), having run the numbers, gets to vote on which companies the firm invests in. \u00a0As far as anyone is aware, VITAL\u00a0is as yet\u00a0unaware of its, well, vital role.<\/p>\n<p>A sign of future\u00a0times, perhaps. \u00a0Perhaps we can look forward to the time when universities appoint VITAL-like algorithms to their SMTs\u00a0and run the numbers on investment and development opportunities. \u00a0It would have to be HEA-accredited, of course, ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist's Schumpeter column reports that Deep Knowledge Ventures, a Hong Kong venture-capital outfit, has appointed an algorithm to its board of directors. \u00a0VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences), having run the numbers, gets to vote on which...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}