Assistant Prof of MIS @ UGA. Interest in networks, AI, and stats. Proud nerd.
Athens, GA
Joined September 2013
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Aaron Schecter retweeted
Since I wasn't that clear, what made this cool was that I simply gave the AI a large (100MB+) dataset that had been used in a prior analysis, and told it to figure out what was interesting. It replicated the results of teh prior analysis in a pretty sophisticated way.
Aaron Schecter retweeted
I've spent hours experimenting with using multiple large language models (LLMs) such as Bard AI, GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and Bing AI for academic research.
They're extremely powerful but with some very painful pitfalls.
Here's my guide to using LLMs as your personal research assistant:
Aaron Schecter retweeted
We live in interesting times.
“These findings suggest that a “theory of mind”-like ability (thus far considered to be uniquely human) may have spontaneously emerged as a byproduct of language models' improving language skills.”
arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
Aaron Schecter retweeted
⭐ my department is hiring! ⭐
Tenure-track assistant professor in computational social science with a focus on communication
@UZH_en is a wonderful place to work!
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/a…
Aaron Schecter retweeted
Glory glory, @UniversityofGA.
Congrats to the Dawgs on a hard-fought National Championship – and to @TCUFootball for beating the odds all season.
Georgia, no doubt you made your community proud tonight.
Aaron Schecter retweeted
A new tool for scriptwriters:
Introducing Dramatron, a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts with a language model. 🎭
Dramatron can interactively co-create new stories complete with title, characters, location descriptions and dialogue.
Try it yourself now: dpmd.ai/dramatron-github
Aaron Schecter retweeted
Multiple open tenured or tenure-track positions in AI, ML, NLP, human-center computing, network science, and data science at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern khoury.northeastern.edu/info…
Aaron Schecter retweeted
A 🧵 about an important and amazing paper by @RoeeLevyZ, my @MITSloan colleague @alexeymakarin and Luca Braghieri on:
The *Causal* Link between Social Media Use and Mental Health... Now forthcoming in AER.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Aaron Schecter retweeted
Appreciation or aversion?
New research from Aaron Schecter, assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Georgia, and his colleagues at @Northeastern and @Penn_State looks at human preferences toward algorithmic advice.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Aaron Schecter retweeted
On the job market is @LindsayELarson of @NorthwesternU, who is currently a postdoc at @kenanflagler! Lindsay adopts an interdisciplinary lens to study team effectiveness in the future of teamwork. #WomenofOB
LindsayLarson.com
Aaron Schecter retweeted
The day has arrived! Don't miss our #aom2022 PDW on #bots in #online #socialnetworks (Session 740) today at 11AM (Pacific Time)!
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➡️2022.aom.org/meetings/virtua…
Aaron Schecter retweeted
If you are going to #AoM in #Seattle and are interested in bots, DO NOT MISS our PDW on #bots in #online #social #networks!
Sunday, Aug 7, 11AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
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Aaron Schecter retweeted
So very proud of these faculty - each transformative and engaging professors! Congratulations, @rosannaksmith @amanda_frossard @MailloPozo @AaronSchecter AND to the rest of the cohort not on twitter :)
Honored to have been a part of this graduating class of Lilly Teaching Fellows! So inspiring to learn about the amazing work other professors do across @universityofga.
Huge thank you to Steve Lewis, @MegMittel, & @sarahksshannon for their mentorship!💐
Aaron Schecter retweeted
Hey #ISTwitter, please follow @MISQinsider! Launching later in 2022, this blog is an effort by @MISQuarterly to share behind-the-scenes looks at the latest research in #informationsystems.
More to come soon...please RT, like and follow!
Aaron Schecter retweeted
Check out the #INGRoup2022 call for papers at ingroup.net/conference.html -- share the latest and greatest in #groups and #teams #research at our 17th annual #conference! Deadline for submissions February 2 at 5:59am CET (February 1 at 11:59pm EST).
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Leaders on the field, in the lab, and in the classroom.
#1 CFB team in the nation
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Aaron Schecter retweeted
Can you trust a robot? Do ‘Dear CEO’ letters make a difference? Why do sales teams avoid big whales? Does #NoMakeup really mean no makeup?
Find answers to these questions & more in the latest edition of TakeAways - Research Insights from Terry Faculty!
mailchi.mp/terry/takeaways-v…
