If your team is suffering, maybe it’s time to replace your leader. Dr Courtney Bir learned that this was true… for bee hives, anyway. As a hobby beekeeper, she had to deal with a very aggressive hive. They stung, and stung often. But you see, the behaviour of a hive is dependent on its queen because every bee in the hive is her child. After replacing her hive’s queen, the change was rather dramatic; while they were still angry, they didn’t go out of their way to sting her anymore. 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
