Studies of risk perception examine the judgements people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing a basis for understanding and anticipating public responses to hazards and improving the communication of risk information among lay people, technical experts, and […]

Behavioral economics combines elements of psychology and economics, with the primary assumption that cognitive biases and/or limitations often prevent people from making optimal decisions, despite their intentions and best efforts.1 Over the last 60 years, researchers and theorists have introduced upward of 80 concepts exploring these predictable biases to which individuals often fall victim, as […]

Guessing the location of a randomly chosen Street View image is hard, even for well-traveled humans. But Google’s latest artificial-intelligence machine manages it with relative ease.

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Don’t get left behind.

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Google’s Deep Mind AI was tested playing several different games to see what kind of behavior would emerge.In one particular game, the AI was tasked with attempting to collect more ‘apples’ within a 2D environment than another ‘player’. The AI also had the ability to hit a player with a beam which would remove them […]

As technology advances, we are quickly becoming slaves to it, unaware of our intentional manipulation. It could be a simple post on Facebook only visible to those targeted or an automated response to your political tweet intentionally trying to anger you for the express purpose of affecting your choice to vote for a particular candidate. […]

NEW YORK (January 23, 2017)—According to a new report by Forbes Insights, in association with Pitney Bowes, "Harnessing the Internet of Things: How to Derive Big Business Benefits from the Connected World," the Internet of Things (IoT) is a historical turning point for businesses and how they will transform consumer [...]

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Solaria Labs, Liberty Mutual Insurance's tech incubator, has created an API developer portal to bring together public data and "proprietary insurance..

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Insurance risk assessment will continue to transform 

In theory, Gamalon’s approach could make it a lot easier for someone to build and refine a machine-learning model, too. Perfecting a deep-learning algorithm requires a great deal of mathematical and machine-learning expertise. “There’s a black art to setting these systems up,” Vigoda says. With Gamalon’s approach, a programmer could train a model by feeding […]

The statistics may feel familiar: a 2014 study by Pew Research in Washington DC showed that 40% of internet users have been harassed and 66% of those said the most recent instance was on social media. Since then, despite many promises made by internet companies, efforts to curb online harassment using human moderation have fallen flat. […]