Making Informed Decisions Less Like Guessing
April 12, 2018
Psychic powers may not be able to bend spoons. Hunches? Well, those are as common as microbes in one’s gut.
With just a little Internet research, it becomes easy recognize the tricks psychics use to fool unsuspecting people. Despite psychic tomfoolery, humans have not stopped for ways to predict the future and AI software has somewhat breached that capability. Computer software is as limited as the humans that program it, but Newsweek reveals that: “Human Brains Are Able To Predict The Future Before The Eye Can Tell It What Happened.” Before you start trying to develop your innate sixth sense, the article explains how eyeballs moves faster than the brain can respond, so the brain uses that gap to predict what we will see next.
Scientists at the University of Glasgow discovered how this process works. The scientist…
“…used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and optical illusions to better understand what’s going on in our brain when we see. Whereas the eyes usually send information to the brain about what the surroundings look like, known as feedforward input, this study focused particularly on brain feedback input, the neurological process where the brain sends information to the eyes.
Study co-author Gracie Edwards, who specializes in neuroscience and psychology at the University of Glasgow, explained that the brain creates predictions based on memories of similar actions. ‘Feedforward and feedback information interact with one another to produce the visual scene we perceive every day,’ said Edwards.”
It sounds like the scientists discovered an explanation for déjà vu, but humans experience this process more regularly than that odd “done it before” feeling. AI programs are actually adapted from how neuroscience. AI algorithms already have the feedforward mechanism, but they lack the feedforward predictive mechanism.
Elon Musk’s fear of smart software may be an example of the grip of guessing. Season with predictive analytics and one can peer into the future with renewed confidence.
Whitney Grace, April 12, 2018
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