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 ...

Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning (ML) technique that uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify patterns in data sets that are neither classified nor labeled.

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that falls within the artificial intelligence (AI) field. This technology works by teaching a computer model to learn by example, similar to how a child ...