Almost Human Is Worse Than Not Human
A robotics professor drew the uncanny valley curve in 1970 from nothing but observation. His best explanation for the pit at the bottom was a corpse.
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One Mistake and the Machine Is Fired
People watched a better algorithm miss one forecast and went back to a worse human. Six other experiments found people following machines more than people. Both results are real.
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The Secretary Asked Him to Leave the Room
In 1966 a program that could only turn your sentences into questions made people confide in it. Then its author tried to explain, and it got stranger.
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You Remember the Folder, Not the Fact
People who believed a computer would save their notes remembered less of the notes and more of where they were filed. Being told to try harder changed nothing.
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