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Study: Loot boxes in games are enticing, but they don’t actually manipulate you into spending

The ABC’s latest Four Cornersreportis an investigation into how video games are “deliberately designed to get people hooked”. It describes the use of gambling-like“loot boxes” in games, the hotly debatednotion of video game addictionand, to a lesser extent, the “predatory techniques” of using user data and AI to increase spending in freemium games (free to play games which are monetized through in-app transactions and advertising). The process of monetizing and collecting data through video games does require scrutiny, as it can be problematic for some users....

Study: Patients are less likely to follow advice from AI doctors that know their names

Engineers forever strive to make our interactions with AImore human-like, but a new study suggests a personal touch isn’t always welcome. Researchers from Penn State and the University of California, Santa Barbara found that people are less likely to follow the advice of an AI doctor that knows their name and medical history. Their two-phase study randomly assigned participants to chatbots that identified themselves as either AI, human, or human assisted by AI....

Study: People are more likely to exploit trustworthy AI than other humans

Cooperation between people holds society together, but new research suggests we’ll be less willing to compromise with “benevolent” AI. The study explored how humans will interact with machines in future social situations — such as self-driving cars that they encounter on the road — by asking participants to play a series of social dilemma games. The participants were told that they were interacting with either another human or an AI agent....

Study: People trust the algorithm more than each other

Our daily lives are run by algorithms. Whether we’re shopping online, deciding what to watch, booking a flight, or just trying to get across town, artificial intelligence is involved. It’s safe to say we rely on algorithms, but do we actually trust them? Up front:Yes. We do. A trio of researchers from the University of Georgia recently conducteda studyto determine whether humans are more likely to trust an answer they believe was generated by an algorithm or crowd-sourced from humans....

Study: Perfect strangers can identify you using only 3 songs from your playlist

A group of researchers from Tel Aviv University recently discovered how shockingly easy it is to identify a person based on a tiny sample of their musical listening preferences. The gist:When companies such as Spotify use your data to train its AI, they remove all the identifying markers such as your name, account number, or anything else a computer or person could use to immediately identify you. What’s left is the raw data on your listening preferences such as how many times you’ve listened to a track and whether you’ve given a track a thumbs up or not....