And all the 0.99 price tags, the “charm pricing”? It’s about getting the first digit down, the anchor number. So a long read, almost an e-book, but clearly written and easily read, which explains plausibly why things are priced for sale the way that they are, right down to the omission of dollar signs from restaurant menus. The subtitle is 'A gigantic list of strategies'. “Putting the same exact games on curved screens increased gameplay 30-80%.” At a payback rate of 45% the customer loses the sense of risk. Gambling machines are random number generators with screens. The technology of addiction, explored in visits to the Las Vegas headquarters of Bally, inventor of the electromechanical slot machine, and of IGT, market leader in video poker. But they do not (yet) have motives and desires.
Deep learning has revived our ambitions for artificial intelligence based on a relatively few human prompts, machines can construct rules for recognising and categorising things in the world around them, often more consistently than humans can. AI | Artificial intelligence: Rise of the machinesĪ smart robot may take your job, but it is highly unlikely to take over the world, at least given foreseeable technologies.
