ELLIS Distinguished Lecture & CRAI-cis seminar

Serge belongie: Searching for Structure in Unfalsifiable Claims

VIDEO OF THE TALK IS NOW AVAILABLE HERE

Time: November 1, 2023, 16:00-17:30 EET
Venue: Y203a, B Hall (Undergraduate Centre, Otakaari 1, Espoo) / Zoom

Abstract:

While advances in automated fact-checking are critical in the fight against the spread of misinformation in social media, we argue that more attention is needed in the domain of unfalsifiable claims. In this talk, we outline some promising directions for identifying the prevailing narratives in shared content (image & text) and explore how the associated learned representations can be used to identify misinformation campaigns and sources of polarization.

Bio:

Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech, and a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing. He is also a co-founder of several companies including Digital Persona and Anchovi Labs. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award, and the Helmholtz Prize for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

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This talk is also part of the CRAI-CIS seminar series.