Deep Fakes
Digital videos can be described as sequences of still images and associated audio. Audio is easy to fake. What about video? A video can easily be broken down into a sequence of still images replayed r...
21 Sep 201830min
Fake News Midterm
In this episode, Kyle reviews what we've learned so far in our series on Fake News and talks briefly about where we're going next.
14 Sep 201819min
Quality Score
Two weeks ago we discussed click through rates or CTRs and their usefulness and limits as a metric. Today, we discuss a related metric known as quality score. While that phrase has probably been used ...
7 Sep 201818min
The Knowledge Illusion
Kyle interviews Steven Sloman, Professor in the school of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Steven is co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone...
31 Aug 201840min
Click Through Rates
A Click Through Rate (CTR) is the proportion of clicks to impressions of some item of content shared online. This terminology is most commonly used in digital advertising but applies just as well to c...
24 Aug 201831min
Algorithmic Detection of Fake News
The scale and frequency with which information can be distributed on social media makes the problem of fake news a rapidly metastasizing issue. To do any content filtering or labeling demands an algor...
17 Aug 201846min
Ant Intelligence
If you prepared a list of creatures regarded as highly intelligent, it's unlikely ants would make the cut. This is expected, as on an individual level, ants do not generally display behavior that most...
10 Aug 201828min
Human Detection of Fake News
With publications such as "Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news", "Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated...
3 Aug 201828min
