Black cab drivers could help improve AI computers

The way that Black Cab drivers plot routes across London could lead to innovations in AI computing, according to a study by York University.Unlike a satnav, which calculates every possible route until it gets to the destination, academics at the University of York, in collaboration with University College London and the Champalimaud Foundation, found that London taxi drivers rationally plan each route by prioritising the most challenging areas first and filling in the rest of the route around th