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UK’s Conservation AI Makes Leap Detecting Threats to Endangered Species

by bcaulfield on 2/17/23, 8:54 PM with 4 comments

• by rikeanimer on 2/18/23, 12:33 AM

  shouldn't they be training the models to detect the poachers and not the animals to be poached?

  I get that it is cool to be able to ooohcrazy train a model to select between different species but like all tools this is one that can be used by both sides-- and assuredly will be.

  Training a model to identify poachers is A: way easier B: waaay more actionable C: way less sexy for a news report and fun for nature lovers, and NVIDIA's shareholders, unfortunately.

  Unfortunately for the pangolins C will probably always trump. . .

  They're so cuutte I love them!!!!

• by mistrial9 on 2/17/23, 11:55 PM

  “And without AI, we’re never going to achieve our targets for protecting endangered species.”

  says the founder of an AI company ?