{"id":22894,"date":"2016-02-29T03:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/ai-learns-to-predict-human-reactions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:29","slug":"ai-learns-to-predict-human-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/ai-learns-to-predict-human-reactions","title":{"rendered":"AI learns to predict human reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-learns-to-predict-human-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1602.06977v2.pdf\">Stanford researchers have developed<\/a> a novel means of teaching artificial intelligence systems how to predict a human\u2019s response to their actions. They\u2019ve given their knowledge base, dubbed Augur, access to online writing community Wattpad and its archive of more than 600,000 stories. This information will enable support vector machines (basically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/12\/microsoft-machine-teaching\/\">learning algorithms<\/a>) to better predict what people do in the face of various stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver many millions of words, these mundane patterns [of people\u2019s reactions] are far more common than their dramatic counterparts,\u201d the team wrote in their study. \u201cCharacters in modern fiction turn on the lights after entering rooms; they react to compliments by blushing; they do not answer their phones when they are in meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its initial field tests, using an Augur-powered wearable camera, the system correctly identified objects and people 91 percent of the time. It correctly predicted their next move 71 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/28\/ai-learns-to-predict-human-reactions-by-reading-our-fiction\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/28\/ai-learns-to-predict-huma...r-fiction\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Stanford researchers have developed a novel means of teaching artificial intelligence systems how to predict a human\u2019s response to their actions. They\u2019ve given their knowledge base, dubbed Augur, access to online writing community Wattpad and its archive of more than 600,000 stories. This information will enable support vector machines (basically, learning algorithms) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1512,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68204,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894\/revisions\/68204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}