QSS 45 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Social Science
This course introduces contemporary methods in machine learning for social scientific inquiry. The growth in AI has produced a technological arms race between the generation of information and media versus its analysis. As a consequence of this arms race, standard computational tools like text-mining approaches regularly used by social scientists to analyze data are often insufficient for many tasks that involve AI-generated material, such as identifying misinformation in podcasts and YouTube videos. Analyzing this data is crucial for the next generation of computational social science, and to understand evolving digital ecosystems.
Instructor
H. Chang