Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️May 15, 2024

Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/just-believing-that-an-ai-is-helping-boosts-your-performance

Researchers discover an **AI placebo effect** where task performance improves when people believe an AI helps them.

"The results also pose a significant challenge for research on HCI, since expectations would influence the outcome unless placebo control studies were used.

‘These results suggest that many studies in the field may have been skewed in favor of AI systems,’ concludes Welsch."

Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance | Aalto University

People perform better if they think they have an AI assistant – even when they’ve been told it’s unreliable and won’t help them

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placebo by marketing
"While powerful technologies like large language models undoubtedly streamline certain tasks, subtle differences between versions may be amplified or masked by the placebo effect – and this is effectively harnessed through marketing."
May 16, 2024 at 6:30amWeb