Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder, or is there a universal standard of beauty? In an attempt to find the “beauty center” of the brain, researchers from Tsinghua University did a meta-analysis — an analysis of existing literature — of studies that used brain-imaging to measure responses to visual art, as well as asking participants to determine human beauty. Their meta-analysis was inconclusive, however, and instead lead the authors to ponder why they were investigating this in the first place.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
