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The annual Network Science conference is coming back to Boston to kick off the third decade of our society! Network Science Society Network Science Institute kate coronges Albert-László Barabási Alessandro Vespignani

Should crowdsourcing contest offer cash or non-cash prizes? Both! Allow ideators to choose their own arxiv.org/abs/2404.01997

How does the presence of an AI assistant affect the collective attention of a team? In lots of nuanced ways, not all of them good. New paper: Collective Attention in Human-AI Teams arxiv.org/abs/2407.17489#

Already miss the CI'24 experience? Come to this cool collective intelligence session at AOM in Chicago! Anita Williams Woolley Joshua Becker, MBA Professor Christoph Riedl hyejin youn

How working with AI impacts the collective attention of teams techxplore.com/news/2024-08-a…

Large study shows humans can learn from AI feedback but access to AI also amplifies existing inequalities by increasing the skill gap and reduces intellectual diversity: everyone learns to specialize in the same areas arxiv.org/abs/2409.18660

How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence #HBR #AI Harvard Business Review hbr.org/2024/10/how-to…

New Nature publication by Esteban Moro et al. "Residential and experienced social segregation: the roles of different transport modes, metro extensions, and longitudinal changes in Hong Kong" networkscienceinstitute.org/publications/r…

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AI has effect on worker compensation not only for supply-demand reasons but also psychological ones: people reduce worker compensation just for using AI arxiv.org/abs/2501.13228

Here's a cool paper estimating a model of demand for buying and playing videogames, using Steam playtime data. tl;dr: - Money is wasted bc you don't know before you buy a game how good it is - If you knew you could get 90% of your happiness at 40% the cost

With differentiated products and heterogeneous consumers, it may be hard for choices to deliver maximal welfare. We might regret choices we make, and we might miss out on products we would have enjoyed. Imke Reimers and Christoph Riedl explore this nber.org/papers/w33401

alz But we go further. We treat the deviations from proportionality as different marginal utilities of hours across games. We get very similar results for the additional hours that spending could have achieved. Joel Waldfogel Christoph Riedl

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Because of missed opportunities and regrettable purchases, differentiated product choices can have large welfare costs, which is quantified with post-purchase video game usage data, from Imke Reimers, Christoph Riedl, and Joel Waldfogel nber.org/papers/w33401

Why is interpretability the key to dominance in AI? Not winning the scaling race, or banning China. Our answer to OSTP/NSF, w/ Goodfire's Tom McGrath Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann MIT's Dylan HadfieldMenell resilience.baulab.info/docs/AI_Action… Here's why:🧵 ↘️

New paper: Language models have “universal” concept representation – but can they capture cultural nuance? 🌏 If someone from Japan asks an LLM what color a pumpkin is, will it correctly say green (as they are in Japan)? Or does cultural nuance require more than just language?

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Language Models use Lookbacks to Track Beliefs Nikhil Prakash (Nikhil Prakash), Natalie Shapira, Arnab Sen Sharma (Arnab Sen Sharma), Christoph Riedl (Christoph Riedl), Yonatan Belinkov (Yonatan Belinkov), Tamar Rott Shaham, David Bau, Atticus Geiger Northeastern U.