Talking to Whales, Pedestrian Patterns, Women’s Competitiveness
Learn how AI may learn to talk to whales; why pedestrians don’t follow the shortest route; and competitiveness in women.
February 02, 2022
Researchers are using AI to understand whale clicks — and talk back to them by Briana Brownell
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- Scientists Are Working on an AI to Let Us Talk to Whales. (2021, October 27). Futurism; Futurism. https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-ai-whale-language
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Pedestrians are wired to follow the “pointiest” route, not the shortest by Cameron Duke
- Bongiorno, C., Zhou, Y., Kryven, M., Theurel, D., Rizzo, A., Santi, P., Tenenbaum, J., & Ratti, C. (2021). Vector-based pedestrian navigation in cities. Nature Computational Science, 1(10), 678–685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00130-y
- How the brain navigates cities. (2021, October 18). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931695
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Women are just as competitive as men, they just show it differently by Steffie Drucker
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- Study casts doubt on theory that women aren’t as competitive as men. (2021, November). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932985
- Cassar, A., & Rigdon, M. L. (2021). Prosocial option increases women’s entry into competition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(45), e2111943118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111943118
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