Cognitive prostheses for goal achievement
Cognitive prostheses for goal achievement
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DOI：
10.1038/s41562-019-0672-9
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
影响因子：
29.9
通讯作者：
Griffiths, Thomas L.
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作者：
Lieder, Falk;Chen, Owen X.;Griffiths, Thomas L.
拖延给人们的生活、经济和整个社会造成了相当大的损失。拖延症往往是因为人们倾向于优先考虑眼前的经历，而不是行动的长期后果。这表明，将短期回报与长期价值保持一致，可能是一种很有希望的方式，可以帮助人们做出更具前瞻性的决定，并克服拖延症。在这里，我们开发了一种决策支持方法，它利用人工智能和博弈元素来重组具有挑战性的连续决策问题，从而使人们更容易采取正确的行动路线。一系列四个越来越现实的实验表明，这种方法可以让人们更快地做出更好的决定，减少拖延，按时完成工作，并在不重要的任务上浪费更少的时间。这些发现表明，我们的方法是朝着开发帮助人们实现目标的认知假体迈出的有希望的一步。
Procrastination takes a considerable toll on people's lives, the economy and society at large. Procrastination is often a consequence of people's propensity to prioritize their immediate experiences over the long-term consequences of their actions. This suggests that aligning immediate rewards with long-term values could be a promising way to help people make more future-minded decisions and overcome procrastination. Here we develop an approach to decision support that leverages artificial intelligence and game elements to restructure challenging sequential decision problems in such a way that it becomes easier for people to take the right course of action. A series of four increasingly realistic experiments suggests that this approach can enable people to make better decisions faster, procrastinate less, complete their work on time and waste less time on unimportant tasks. These findings suggest that our method is a promising step towards developing cognitive prostheses that help people achieve their goals.