Humans Prefer Computer Control, Says MIT Study

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Mark Melin
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Humans prefer taking orders from computers not the other way around, a new study from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes. Humans like being ordered by computers When given a choice between a human giving work orders to a computer, or a mix of computers and humans equally in control, or computers giving work orders to humans, the majority of production line employees in the survey said they prefer the computer telling them what to do. Not only did the study reveal that humans like to be told what to do by…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.