Wild Capuchin Monkeys Use AI Touchscreen for Rewards in Costa Rica

Wild Capuchin Monkeys Use AI Touchscreen for Rewards in Costa Rica

Researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology deployed an AI-powered touchscreen system in Costa Rica’s Taboga Forest Reserve, where wild capuchin monkeys learned to use it for banana rewards, with facial recognition identifying individual animals at a 97 percent accuracy rate. Field primatology has long wrestled with a fundamental contradiction. The primate … Read more