Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people's brains as they first find patterns in information they are ...

One of the challenges with existing fraud detection systems is that they are primarily rules-based, using predefined notions of what constitutes fraudulent or suspicious behavior. The problem is that ...

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. In a development that bridges science fiction ...

One of the most widely adopted of the seven patterns of AI is the Patterns and Anomalies pattern. Machine learning is particularly good at digesting large amounts of data very quickly and identifying ...

Machine learning has infiltrated much of the technology consumers and businesses use on a regular basis. Widespread adoption of this subset of artificial intelligence may have seemed futuristic not ...

Of the seven patterns of AI that represent the ways in which AI is being implemented, one of the most common is the recognition pattern. The main idea of the recognition pattern of AI is that we’re ...