AI can now learn to manipulate human behavior
Feb 2021, phys.org
Three different experiments -- one where the AI learned the human "choice patterns" and then used that info to influence future choices (70% effective), another where they arranged a particular sequence to get the participants to make mistakes (25% increase in mistakes), and another where the player is manipulated on how to invest money, and it could either maximize the amount invested, or fairly distribute it ("highly successful" at both). Did someone mention high frequency trading?
via CSIRO's Data61 in Australia: Amir Dezfouli et al. Adversarial vulnerabilities of human decision-making, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016921117
Robots can use eye contact to draw out reluctant participants in group interactions
Mar 2021, phys.org
You should be a little creeped out by this: "By redirecting its gaze to less proficient players, a robot can elicit involvement from even the most reluctant participants." Also sounds like an inevitable Zoom update for online learning.
via KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Robot Gaze Can Mediate Participation Imbalance in Groups with Different Skill Levels, ACM Digital Library, DOI: 10.1145/3434073.3444670
Using AI to gauge the emotional state of cows and pigs
May 2021, phys.org
And it works on humans too, unless you don't consider Uyghurs human:
AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs
May 2021, BBC News
MeowTalk: Alexa developer’s app to translate cat’s miaow
Nov 2020, BBC News
You won't call it animal telepathy when it comes out, but if you were able to explain it to somebody from the 19th century, that's what they would call it.
Natural language processing helps identify patients with chronic cough
Feb 2021, phys.org
Chronic cough is hard to identify from electronic health records because it doesn't have a diagnostic code.
This is a great example of how we're at the tipping point in the computer paradigm. Diagnostic codes are a way for us to leverage traditional computer technology. We have to make our data machine-readable for the computers to use it. Like a form of pre-digestion, we chew the food before we give it to them.
But now, the computer is the one who digests the data, and then gives it to us. It's the paradigm in reverse. "Unstructured data?" No problem. Our baby Babbages are all grown up now.
via Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and Merck & Co: Michael Weiner et al. Identifying and characterizing a chronic cough cohort through electronic health records, Chest (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.12.011
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