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Assessing others: Evaluating expertise of humans, computer algorithms
January 16, 2014 by NewsBot
Researchers used fMRI technology to monitor the brain activity of volunteers as they interacted with "experts" -- some human, others computer algorithms -- to predict the behavior of a hypothetical financial asset. Volunteers responded more positively to human rather than computer "experts."