Measuring Web Search Behavior
On the show, Aleksandra Urman and Mykola Makhortykh join us to discuss their work on the comparative analysis of web search behavior using web tracking data. They shared interesting results from their...
21 Nov 202236min
StrategyQA and Big Bench
Did Aristotle Use a Laptop? That's a question from the StrategyQA benchmark which highlights the stretch goals for current artificial intelligence systems. Answering a question like that requires se...
18 Nov 202241min
Ad Blockers Effect on News Consumption
While at first glance, the use of ad blockers drops the revenue of news publishers, this may not be completely true. On the show today, Shunyao Yan, an Assistant Professor in Marketing at Leavey Schoo...
14 Nov 202238min
Your Consent is Worth 75 Euros a Year
People who do not want their data tracked and shared online can pay a token for a cookie paywall. But are the websites keeping to their side of the bargain? Victor Morel, a Postdoc candidate at the Ch...
7 Nov 202224min
Automated Email Generation for Targeted Attacks
The advancement of generative language models has been a force for good, but also for evil. On the show, Avisha Das, a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Texas Health Center, joins us to discu...
31 Okt 202245min
Tribal Marketing
Peter Gloor, a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, takes us on a new world of tribe classification. He extensively discussed the need for such classification on the inter...
24 Okt 202237min
Nano-targetted Facebook Ads
17 Okt 202244min
Debiasing GPT-3 Job Ads
We hear about the impeccable achievements of GPT-3 models, but such large generative models come with their bias. On the show today, Conrad Borchers, a Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction, joi...
10 Okt 202248min
