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New AI model, BehaVERT, reads mouse behavior like language, revealing patterns that could improve research into human ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for ...

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Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...