Placebo Effect

The placebo effect, the phenomenon where an inert treatment improves outcomes due to expectation, is a significant area of ongoing research. Current studies explore its influence across diverse fields, including medicine, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, investigating how expectations shape performance and outcomes even in the absence of a genuine intervention. Researchers are employing various methods, such as analyzing social media data for adverse drug events and developing novel algorithms for class-incremental learning, to better understand and potentially harness the placebo effect. Understanding this effect has broad implications for improving treatment efficacy, designing more effective human-computer interfaces, and developing robust AI systems.