Who are the humans completing these tasks? They began as bored Amazon shoppers looking for a little spare change, first in the United States and then in India. The the labor pool has grown rapidly in ...

Navigating a busy crowd is often an awkward experience, but sometimes, it feels much easier than others. In a crowded hallway, people seem to spontaneously organize themselves into lanes, while in an ...

The rise of the AI gig workforce has driven an important shift from commodity task execution to first-tier crowd contribution ...

Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighborhood model, based on the visual fields of each person in the crowd. Birds flock, fish school, and human crowds, too, move in a collective ...

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Orderly crowd: Hajj pilgrims at the Kaaba in Mecca could be kept safe by "game changers". (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 2.0/Al Jazeera English) Orderly motion could be restored to a panicked human crowd though ...

A fox, a hedgehog and an LLM – it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but this is in fact the introduction to a topic that is consuming the attention of Philip Tetlock, psychology professor, ...

New York City marathon runners on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Source: Wikipedia/Creative Commons Large human crowds exhibit fluid-like collective behavior that can be predicted based solely on ...