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AI Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:08 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
The project description mentions a satellite-driven water management system, which could potentially support the mission by providing open and accessible data for environmental research. However, there is insufficient information to confirm whether the project explores novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
Agua AI seems to entail the use of AI and machine learning, which could be part of necessary technological infrastructure in DeSci. Nevertheless, without concrete details about how the project builds, tests, or deploys this infrastructure within a DeSci context, or recruits the scientific community, a definitive evaluation cannot be made.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
The use of generative AI and machine learning in the Agua AI project could address data sharing practices and perhaps contribute solutions to the data reproducibility crisis by enhancing the precision and availability of water management data. However, there is no clear information on whether these particular DeSci issues are explicitly tackled by the project.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
No information is provided about the project's compliance with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. Furthermore, the absence of a Project Github link makes it challenging to assess the project's open-source contribution and other eligibility factors.