Smithsonian Magazine

Five Dramatic Ways Animals Respond to Human Noise, From Mimicking Car Alarms While Wooing Mates to Calling Higher Over the Din of Traffic

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health issues Olivia Ferrari As human noise increases around the world, some animals ...
Business Wire

NTT Study: Artificial Neural Networks for Recognizing Natural Sounds Exhibit Human-Like Responses

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Akira Shimada, President & CEO; hereinafter "NTT") has discovered that artificial neural ...
Ars Technica

Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed “death whistles” because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal Communications ...
BGR

One Simple ChatGPT Hack Makes AI Responses Sound Like A Human Instead Of A Robot

Chatting with ChatGPT is part of my daily life these days. I talk to ChatGPT for research, I do it when I have to "google" something, and sometimes I do it for the lols. Since I'm on ChatGPT Plus, I ...
EurekAlert!

Our brain prefers positive vocal sounds that come from our left

Sounds that we hear around us are defined physically by their frequency and amplitude. But for us, sounds have a meaning beyond those parameters: we may perceive them as pleasant or unpleasant, ...