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SUMMARY:EPFL Seminar on Computational Social Science and Economics by Sidd
 harth Suri of Microsoft Research
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DESCRIPTION:Siddharth Suri\nGhost Work: The Labor that Powers AI\n\nThink 
 about the last time you searched for something on the web. Ever wonder who
  trained the search engine ranking algorithm? Ghost work is the hidden hum
 an labor that powers modern AI systems not only for web search\, but also 
 for content moderation\, image recognition\, spam detection\, and a host o
 f other problem domains. This talk will shed light on this hidden workforc
 e by introducing the humans that train modern AI systems and step in when 
 these systems have low confidence. Through the combination of qualitative 
 and quantitative research I’ll show how workers self-organize by buildin
 g their own collaboration network. We will also show how workers constantl
 y have to hustle to find good work and that those creating the work have t
 he majority of the power in these markets. We'll close by discussing the i
 mplications of ghost work on the overall future of work. Most of the resea
 rch in this talk is from the recently published book\, Ghost Work\, with M
 ary L. Gray.\n\nBio: \nSiddharth Suri is a Principal Researcher at Microso
 ft Research - AI.  Sid is a computational social scientist whose work lie
 s at the intersection of computer science\, behavioral economics\, crowdso
 urcing and the gig economy.  His early work analyzed the relationship bet
 ween network topology and human behavior.  Since then he became one of th
 e leaders in designing\, building\, and conducting "virtual lab" experimen
 ts using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.  He used this methodology to study coo
 peration\, honesty\, group problem solving\, and display advertising. Most
  recently\, he has been studying the gig workers who power many modern app
 s\, websites\, and AI systems which culminated in a book he coauthored tit
 led Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Unde
 rclass\, published in May 2019.\nSid earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Info
 rmation Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 under the supe
 rvision of Michael Kearns. After that he was a postdoctoral associate wor
 king with Jon Kleinberg in the Computer Science department at Cornell Univ
 ersity and then he moved to the Human & Social Dynamics group at Yahoo! Re
 search led by Duncan Watts. Sid was a founding member of Microsoft Researc
 h - New York City and he recently joined the Adaptive Systems and Interact
 ion group of Microsoft Research - AI.\n 
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