AI studies our photos to prove that nature makes us happy

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AI studies our photos to prove that nature makes us happy

Turns out a bit of a fresh air really will do you good

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 as Costa Rica and Finland - tended to have high rankings in the World Happiness Report 2019.

Happy times ahead?

The study provides global evidence of the "biophilia hypothesis" - the theory that humans have an innate tendency to seek connections with nature. The term was coined by American biol



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