AI studies our photos to prove that nature makes us happy

Researchers have discovered evidence that nature really does make us happy, by using AI to analyze photos on social media. The National University of Singapore team used automated image recognition tech to analyze more than 31,500 photos uploaded by people from 185 different countries. They found that images tagged as #fun, #vacations, and #honeymoons were more likely to contain elements of nature such as plants than images tagged as #daily or #routines. [Read: My family’s happier since we traded movie night for video games] The results also showed that countries where more photos of nature were tagged as #fun — such…

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