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If the Wright Brothers could have used AI to guide their decision making, it's almost certain they\xa0would never have gotten off the ground. That's because, points out Teppo Felin\xa0of\xa0Utah State University and Oxford, all the evidence said human flight was impossible. So how and why did the\xa0Wrights persevere? Felin explains that the human ability to ignore existing data and evidence is not only our Achilles heel, but also one of our superpowers. Topics include the problems inherent in modeling our brains after computers, and the value of not only data-driven prediction, but also belief-driven experimentation.