The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
December 22nd, 2024
Via Wired, a look at how – with big cash prizes at stake and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us? In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has […]
Read More »AI: Changing The Way We Study Bird Migration
December 19th, 2024
Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how – after decades of frustration – machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists: A small songbird soars above Ithaca, New York, on a September night. He is one of 4 billion birds, a great annual river of feathered migration across North America. […]
Read More »Conservationists Turn To AI In Battle To Save Red Squirrels
November 26th, 2024
Via BBC, a look at how conservationists are turning to AI in their battle to save red squirrels: An artificial intelligence (AI) tool which has been trained to tell the difference between grey and red squirrels could be “an absolute game changer”, conservationists say. The system, called Squirrel Agent, has been trained on thousands of […]
Read More »To Reduce Wildlife Deaths Caused by Fences, Scientists Are Turning to AI
August 24th, 2024
Via Science.org, a look at how software trained to identify fences from aerial images could help wildlife managers prevent pronghorn from getting stuck and starving: As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western United States, enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain […]
Read More »Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Turn Anyone into an Expert Tracker
August 13th, 2024
Via Hakai Magazine, a look at how scientists are working on a machine learning tool that could, one day, identify individual animals from photographs of their footprints: Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up […]
Read More »In Brazil, Tech Is A New Frontier In Battles Over Indigenous Lands
July 25th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at how – as illegal miners seek to profit from the Amazon, and NGOs to protect it – high-speed internet, AI and even Flight Simulator are emerging as tools for good and bad: A dirt runway near an illegal mining site in the Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil. In […]
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