It’s human nature to want to be happy, but it seems like constantly pursuing happiness ironically makes us less happy in the long run. Neurological studies have found that having overly high expectations about things or events often results in less satisfaction overall, even after a positive outcome. Worse still is that this diminished happiness causes us to move on from positive outcomes quickly because of our need to feel happy, meaning we aren’t able to be grateful for what we just achieved or what just happened in our lives. Read full article here
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
