Can't find your car keys? Robots will remember better than you can

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Back in 2015, information channels were awash with reports of the human attention span having plummeted to 8.25 seconds for a basic task. Even more ignominious was one detail in the report: The human ability to focus registered lower than a goldfish's attention span, which came in at 9 seconds.

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You could almost hear an audible sigh of relief when it turned out that none of this was true. (Goldfish apparently do have memories and can learn!)

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