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A team of boffins at Johns Hopkins' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have worked out that the human brain does work as a computer – and that is not particularly complimentary.
Chaz Firestone, an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Zhenglong Zhou, a Johns Hopkins senior majoring in cognitive science, decided to show humans the sorts of images that still fool computers' AI.
Since computers have a vocabulary which is as limited as a Donald Trump tweet. Researchers gave humans the choice of two descriptive options: One of the computer's answer and one a random answer.
Humans made the same choices as the computer 75 per cent of the time.
The researchers then gave the humans the computer's answer, and the computer's next-best guess the answer.
The humans went with the computer's answer 91 per cent of the time.
Even when they were shown television static, a greater than a random number of humans agreed with the computer's description.
Firestone said that AI technologies are going to be entering our lives and humans will have to learn a bunch of things about how it works -- well and poorly.
Apple fanboys have already modified their behaviour, so they don’t use slang when talking to Siri.
The next step is to see whether humans can become machine psychologists -- experts in knowing how a machine will think and when it will fail.
A team of boffins at Johns Hopkins' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have worked out that the human brain does work as a computer – and that is not particularly complimentary.
Chaz Firestone, an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Zhenglong Zhou, a Johns Hopkins senior majoring in cognitive science, decided to show humans the sorts of images that still fool computers' AI.
Since computers have a vocabulary which is as limited as a Donald Trump tweet. Researchers gave humans the choice of two descriptive options: One of the computer's answer and one a random answer.
Humans made the same choices as the computer 75 per cent of the time.
The researchers then gave the humans the computer's answer, and the computer's next-best guess the answer.
The humans went with the computer's answer 91 per cent of the time.
Even when they were shown television static, a greater than a random number of humans agreed with the computer's description.
Firestone said that AI technologies are going to be entering our lives and humans will have to learn a bunch of things about how it works -- well and poorly.
Apple fanboys have already modified their behaviour, so they don’t use slang when talking to Siri.
The next step is to see whether humans can become machine psychologists -- experts in knowing how a machine will think and when it will fail.
