[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Ido Erev (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) -- Feb 13

[Adams Wei Yu]

Dear faculty and students,

We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, Feb 13, at noon in *NSH 1507* for
AI Seminar sponsored by Apple. To learn more about the seminar series,
please visit the AI Seminar webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.

On Tuesday, Ido Erev
<https://web.iem.technion.ac.il/en/people/userprofile/erev.html> will give
the following talk:

Title: When and how can social scientists add value to data scientists? A
choice prediction competition for human decision making

Abstract:

Behavioral decision research highlights interesting choice anomalies, and
proposes elegant cognitive models that can explain these phenomena. Yet, it
is often easier to predict behavior with theory-free machine learning tools
than with the leading cognitive models. One reason for the difficulty in
deriving general predictions using cognitive models is that different
models are often proposed to explain different phenomena. It is then
unclear which model to use to address a new task. The current talk reviews
recent research and describes a new choice prediction competition project (
https://cpc18.wordpress.com) that tries to address this problem.

Based on research with Ori Plonsky, Reut Apel, Eyal Ert and Moshe
Tennenholtz.


Bio:

Ido Erev is the President Elect of the European Association for Decision
Making, Professor of Behavioral Science at the Technion, and Research
Environment Professor in Warwick Business School. His work focuses on the
impact of economics incentives on choice behavior. It suggests that the
initial reaction to a description of the incentive structure reflects
overweighting of rare events, but experience reverses this bias.
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