AI, I need consoling!
Speaker: Kyunghwa Chung (Jenny), PhD, Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Business and Management: Title: AI, I need consoling! The importance of AI is increasing in the service industry. Many firms are replacing their call center staff with AI chatbot services. But are consumers really satisfied with AI services? What do consumers really want when they
The Motherboard of Myriad Things: Zhuangzi, Xin, and the Internet
Speaker: Billy Wheeler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Science and Society Title: From a Daoist point of view what should the appropriate relationship be between man and machine? Although technology has influenced mankind for millennia, the exponential growth of digital technologies in recent years has transformed the way we live beyond recognition. In this talk I
I’m Doing as Well as I Can: Modeling People as Rational Finite Automata
Professor Joseph Halpern, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell University. (Full Bio: https://math.cornell.edu/joseph-halpern) Abstract: Several Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work showing that humans do not behave as maximum utility maximizers, as standard economic theory predicts. Yet they are “predictably irrational”: their deviations from rational behavior are quite systematic. Our goal is to