Science for Society: AI Buzz: What’s Not New?
Psychologists come together to discuss the past and current applications of artificial intelligence from a scientific perspective.
Speakers
David Yeager
University of Texas at AustinDora Demszky
Stanford UniversityDora Demszky is an Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at Stanford University, and in Computer Science (by courtesy). Her research focuses developing and deploying tools that combine natural language processing, linguistics and input from practitioners to facilitate equitable, student-centered instruction.
Marjolein Fokkema
Leiden UniversityMarjolein is an associate professor at Leiden University. While recent increases in availability of data and computational power have made prediction easier, extracting robust human-understandable scientific knowledge remains challenging. Marjolein develops interpretable machine-learning methods, that allow behavioral scientists to test and improve theories using ‘big’ or smaller datasets.