{"id":910,"date":"2014-03-20T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=910"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:51:36","slug":"faking-it-computers-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/faking-it-computers-can-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Faking it? Computers can tell<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_911\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Photo-of-Grimacing-patient-by-Dominic-Ali.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-911\" alt=\"Is this pain real or faked? A new study suggests that machine learning software can do a better job of determining the answer than humans can. (Credit: Dominic Ali, University of Toronto)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Photo-of-Grimacing-patient-by-Dominic-Ali.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Photo-of-Grimacing-patient-by-Dominic-Ali.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Photo-of-Grimacing-patient-by-Dominic-Ali-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is this pain real or faked? A new study suggests that machine learning software can do a better job of determining the answer than humans can. (Credit: Dominic Ali, University of Toronto)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to a new study, humans are not very good at determining whether someone\u2019s face is expressing real pain (e.g. from having one\u2019s arm immersed in cold water) versus faked pain. Even after training, humans got it right only 55 per cent of the time, just slightly better than random chance.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, image recognition software and machine learning techniques were able to get the answer right 85 per cent of the time. Such techniques could have benefits for law enforcement, human resources and even counter-terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00147-X\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 20, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/ics.utoronto.ca\/Laidlaw_Research_Centre\/Faculty_Profiles\/Kang_Lee\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kang Lee<\/a>, University of Toronto, Toronto<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, humans are not very good at determining whether someone\u2019s face is expressing real pain (e.g. from having one\u2019s arm immersed in cold water) versus faked pain. Even after training, humans got it right only 55 per cent of the time, just slightly better than random chance. By contrast, image recognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1011],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Photo-of-Grimacing-patient-by-Dominic-Ali.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-eG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}