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John Horton, MIT
Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: Prof. Horton will demonstrate how OpenAI’s GPT3 can be used as a computational model of humans that can be given endowments, information, and preferences in order to explore human behavior via simulation.
Time & Location
31 Jan 2023, 10:00 am – 11:00 am HKT
Zoom (ID: 965 4867 9496, Password: 930740)
About the Speaker
Please join the talk here: .https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96548679496?pwd=aVE0Kzg4aWY4ZWs3Y1lWcFY3RTBqQT09
John Horton is the and an Associate Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor
Horton's research focuses on the intersection of labor economics, market design, and information systems. He is particularly interested in improving the efficiency and equity of matching markets.
After completing his PhD and prior to joining NYU Stern School of Business in 2013, he served for two years as the staff economist for oDesk, an online labor market.
Horton received a BS in mathematics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.