Psychology
Psychology

Psychology

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Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Brain and cognitive sciences Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Computer science and technology computer-vision Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Evolution Imaging Lincoln Laboratory machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Psychology Research School of Engineering School of Science

AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects?

New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.