Computers can compute better than humans

Can Bots be Better Learners than Humans?

In this paper, we discuss how Learning Analytics, as the activity to capture and analyze people’s learning behaviors in order to improve their learning experiences, could be used as a way for bots to “learn how to learn” and how this might have a greater impact than the apparent improvement it would enable for Artificial Intelligence. Through exploring this particular scenario as part and in th...

" Expert Rock, Paper, Scissors: " Can Computers Play " Rock, Paper, Scissors " Better than Humans?

Can human experts predict solubility better than computers?

In this study, we design and carry out a survey, asking human experts to predict the aqueous solubility of druglike organic compounds. We investigate whether these experts, drawn largely from the pharmaceutical industry and academia, can match or exceed the predictive power of algorithms. Alongside this, we implement 10 typical machine learning algorithms on the same dataset. The best algorithm...

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Why Experimentation can be better than \ Perfect

Many problems correspond to the classical control task of determining the appropriate control action to take, given some (sequence of) observations. One standard approach to learning these control rules, called behavior cloning, involves watching a perfect operator operate a plant, and then trying to emulate its behavior. In the experimental learning approach, by contrast, the learner rst guess...