“AI can be good for low stakes issues”
EPISODE 1 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Keith Burghardt
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The Evolution of Cities: AI Helps Map Madrid and More
A USC computer scientist presents data to understand the changing nature of cities and plan sustainable cities of the future.
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Spotting Human Activity In Internet Usage Data
USC computer scientists can detect large-scale human events by looking at IP address activity.
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How K-Pop Fans Helped COVID-19 Tweets Go Viral
USC researcher analyzed millions of tweets to shed light on a new dimension of K-Pop’s influence: public health.
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Cracking the Code of Content Moderation
USC researchers are creating science-backed tools to improve social media content moderation policies.
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DEI @ ISI: Pursuing Excellence in Research by Cultivating Diversity
ISI is committed to solving big problems in the world by leveraging differences and ensuring an inclusive environment.
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ISI Unveils Its New Logo
This essential branding element will further ISI’s communications strategy to increase awareness about the institute.
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ISI Ph.D. Students Connect Academic Learning with Summer Internships
ISI Ph.D. students spent their summers gaining practical experience and building professional networks at major tech companies.
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Mountain Hikes, Castle Ruins and Privacy Engineering
ISI cybersecurity researcher attends prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar to provide insights on privacy issues in autonomous and self-driving vehicles.
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A Smarter Approach to Answer Financial Questions
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers apply a case-based reasoning approach using relevant examples to help answer financial questions.
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Causal Effects: Distinguishing Correlation from Causation
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers grapple with hidden variables in cause-and-effect studies to make better-informed decisions.
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Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics
USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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Predicting the Future, Starting With Billiard Balls and Car Collisions
An ISI team identifies limitations in dynamics prediction and proposes a solution.
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USC at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
USC researchers will present nine papers at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), the leading international conference on machine learning
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ISI at ACL ’23: Learning from Games, Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias and Searching Events in Hundreds of Languages
USC’s Information Science Institute (ISI) brings a host of research to the conference – from dialogue models to machine learning to semantic understanding and more.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Leading the Conversation through Intents and Theory-of-Mind
Researchers dive into the study of teacher-student natural language interactions to achieve a shared goal in the fantasy world game, Dungeons & Dragons.
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Codenames Duet: Predicting the Next Guess Based on Cultural Background
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers dive into the nuances of human behavior and how cultural markers affect decision-making.
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Understanding Global Events in Every Language
USC researchers have developed a novel AI technique to pull information from vast amounts of globally sourced text.
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USC to Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Mental Health
A collaborative effort with UCLA will predict psychological health risk factors
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This Chatbot Sounds Familiar
USC researchers have proposed a novel method to give personalities to language models.
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Adam Russell to Lead USC Information Sciences Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Division
Russell sees AI from an anthropologist’s perspective – looking at human behavior in an era of machines, with an expertise in collective intelligence and cross-disciplinary thinking.
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Tackling Cosmic Radiation in Next-Gen Space Computing
Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute are developing ways to protect future hardware from the effects of space.
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How To Change the World Through Hardware? “Go With Your Passion”
Distinguished Alum Bob Parker spoke about the early and impactful hardware advances made at ISI.
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To the Ends of the Earth: Bringing the Bible to Languages Never Before Reached
Researchers at the Information Sciences Institute are developing technology that helps to streamline Bible translation.
