Hearing voices and imagining the rainforest: why Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot compete with the need for the ‘human touch’ in research analysis

Nina Laurie

doi:10.1111/sjtg.70009

Hearing voices and imagining the rainforest: why Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot compete with the need for the ‘human touch’ in research analysis

Nina Laurie^*

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Women's Voices from the Rainforest. Janet Gabriel Townsend (in collaboration with Ursula Arrevillaga, Jennie Bain, Socorro Cancino, Susan F. Frenk, Silvana Pacheco and Elia Pérez). Routledge, London, UK and New York, USA, 1995, pp. viii + 212. ISBN 978-0-415-10532-3 (pbk).

Original language	English
Number of pages	4
Journal	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Volume	Early View
Early online date	14 Apr 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.70009
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 14 Apr 2025

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Hearing voices and imagining the rainforest: why Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot compete with the need for the ‘human touch’ in research analysis

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