Comment Interdisciplinary collaboration ist the key.... (Score 1) 205
It's funny how many people actually think it doesn't help to understand human behaviour to predict human behaviour - and you don't need to be a psychologist for that.
The goal for this competition ist to find a technical solution to a human problem. E.g. Based on algorithms, automatically predict (=technical solution) human preferences in a certain topic (=human problem). So in my opinion it would be best for them to join forces and combine technical prowess and realistic approaches to human behavior.
Why do you think the two Psychologists Tversky and Kahneman got the Nobel-Prize in economics for their Prospect Theory to predict human decisions in situations that involve risk. There has to be some truth in their approach that the decisions of a human being cannot always be fully explained by rational standards. Why else should the economs have given two psychologists "their" prize?
It's yet another example why we should lay down our blinders and start accepting that benefit lies in collaboration and mutual understanding of different disciplines. Psychology can profit (and did) from mathematical approaches and AI-resarch can benefit from psychological research.
Wireflyer
The goal for this competition ist to find a technical solution to a human problem. E.g. Based on algorithms, automatically predict (=technical solution) human preferences in a certain topic (=human problem). So in my opinion it would be best for them to join forces and combine technical prowess and realistic approaches to human behavior.
Why do you think the two Psychologists Tversky and Kahneman got the Nobel-Prize in economics for their Prospect Theory to predict human decisions in situations that involve risk. There has to be some truth in their approach that the decisions of a human being cannot always be fully explained by rational standards. Why else should the economs have given two psychologists "their" prize?
It's yet another example why we should lay down our blinders and start accepting that benefit lies in collaboration and mutual understanding of different disciplines. Psychology can profit (and did) from mathematical approaches and AI-resarch can benefit from psychological research.
Wireflyer
