Christos Nicolaides
@CNicolaides
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Assistant Professor @UCYOfficial, Digital Fellow @MITSloan, Director C4E. PhD from @MIT_CEE. #bigdata #socialnetworks #contagion
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Joined May 2011
Honored to receive the @SocRiskAnalysis Society for Risk Analysis best paper award for 2020🙂. Thanks to my co-authors at @UCYOfficial, MIT and Berkeley (cc @martikagv) .
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Let people play with AI & they will figure out some of what they need to do. This cool experiment found that people naturally adapt their prompting style to more sophisticated AIs, using simpler prompts for DALLE-2, but making them complex as they learned DALLE-3 could do more.
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Proud of our new paper on prompting & GenAI advances! My Big takeaway: AI keeps making us humans better in unexpected, exciting ways. Presumably, this will open up further opportunities for us to leverage and benefit from this technology! https://t.co/S6oSzzzCAw
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🚨 NEW Pre-print! Thankful and proud of working with @daveholtz, @eamanjahani, @BenSManning, @joe_z_zhang, @malsobay, @ssuri and @CNicolaides to shed some experimental light on the future of prompt engineering! https://t.co/OpX5vO6Gkc
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As generative AI systems rapidly improve, a key question emerges: How do users keep up-and what happens if they fail to do so. Drawing on theories of dynamic capabilities and IT complements, we...
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“As generative models get better, people improve their prompting techniques.” What a nice collaboration with this amazing group. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
🚨 A new working paper that tackles the big question: "Will prompt engineering still matter in the future?" 🤔 https://t.co/dAFdo0jxm5 This is joint work w/ @eamanjahani, @BenSManning, @joe_z_zhang, @ocolluphid, @malsobay, @CNicolaides and @ssuri. More details below 👇 1/
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🚨 A new working paper that tackles the big question: "Will prompt engineering still matter in the future?" 🤔 https://t.co/dAFdo0jxm5 This is joint work w/ @eamanjahani, @BenSManning, @joe_z_zhang, @ocolluphid, @malsobay, @CNicolaides and @ssuri. More details below 👇 1/
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Check out our @Nature comment article on AI generated content during elections: https://t.co/xqB64kDXsx Short summary: There was not much gen AI content during the elections. This was (imo) because it was much easier to generate misinfo/hate content with existing tooling.
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Nature - A sample of roughly two million WhatsApp messages highlights urgent concerns about the spread and prevalence of AI-generated political content.
Finally, a comment by @gvrkiran and @simonchauchard highlight how AI-generated political content could potentially influence elections in India
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A new profile of me, covering research on peer influence, causal inference, and where network structure comes from https://t.co/P7BEMiluue
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MIT Sloan Associate Professor Dean Eckles studies social networks and the effects they have on people’s lives. He examines questions such as: “How do social networks form and evolve? And what are the...
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tfw you arrive at your @airbnb and realize that the whole space is essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into
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Happy to share that our new paper on "Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources" with my Phd Student Giorgos Giallouros and researchers from @UCY_FEM & @UCYMedical published today in @IPMJournal. https://t.co/AZXnxSRH3p
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🚨!!Out today in @Science!!🚨 In a massive interdisciplinary collaboration between 14 researchers across institutions, we rectify misconceptions and offer key research directions to inform policy and beneficial uses of generative AI. Thread below: https://t.co/tQ79ixOVFG
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Sitting in his class for a semester in 2009 was one of the most precious moments of my studies! Below is how we celebrated then his birthday with his favourite matrix made by cupcakes😀 Thanks Prof Gil Strang for inspiring thousands and thousands students around the world 🙏🙏🙏
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Congratulations to @UCYOfficial—the first institution in Cyprus—on achieving AACSB accreditation! Achieving accreditation is a process of rigorous internal focus, engagement with an AACSB-assigned mentor, and peer-reviewed evaluation. Read more: 📢 https://t.co/7MZWXdPCTp
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Interested in some combination of formal privacy, generative models, fairness & causal inference? We're looking for researcher to join a team at @mit_ide collaborating with @MITIBMLab in this area.
📢The @mit_ide is #hiring a Postdoctoral Associate as part of a research program on privacy-preserving technologies, #syntheticdata, fairness and accountability, and #causalinference working w Professors @deaneckles & @manish_raghavan Apply + share widely: https://t.co/W2SbUNdGl4
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As ChatGPT and other LLMs become better and better at *answering questions,* the important complementary human skill becomes: Asking questions. As I tell my students... Asking really good questions is an art form that is becoming even more important in the Age of AI.
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❗Smartphones & social media are destroying children’s mental health ❗Correlation/causation aside, these graphs are depressing. I'd love to hear people's opinions on the current state of the evidence, the extent of the problem and ideas for solutions. https://t.co/oOlaOHtCvY
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🚨New Publication🚨 Very happy to share that our large-scale experiment (~500k people in 23 countries) where we test a simple descriptive norms intervention to increase vaccine acceptance, is finally published in @NatureComms! https://t.co/bdBoecSAsh
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🚨New Paper🚨 Many have asked my opinion on @elonmusk's new verification, blue check & identity cue ideas for @Twitter. Today we published a large-scale experiment in @NatureHumBehav showing identity cues have dramatic effects on how we perceive & engage with content online A🧵
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🚨Accuracy Prompt Meta-Thread🚨 Weve proposed that prompting people to think about accuracy reduces misinfo sharing. But is this effect replicable & robust? @GordPennycook & I analyzed 20 exps, N=26k Answer: resounding YES, across many headlines/prompts https://t.co/Nqyvz3m50o 1/
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I am looking for PhD students this year! If you are interested in working on misinformation/polarization particularly in the global south, apply to work with me! Rutgers iSchool is well ranked & has a great set of faculty working on similar problems. DM/email me with questions
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