© James Hendler and Alice M. Mulvehill 2016

James Hendler and Alice M. Mulvehill, Social Machines, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1156-4_3

3. The Games We Play

James Hendler and Alice M. Mulvehill2

(1)Albany, New York, USA

(2)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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In the medical scenario presented in the last chapter, you saw that there are differences between what humans can do well and what computers can do well. In this chapter, we will explore this in more detail. In particular, we want to highlight the capabilities where human cognition shines, describe the areas that computers are best at, and introduce emerging areas where computers are starting to blur some of ...

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