{"id":4817,"date":"2022-02-21T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T07:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:36:31","slug":"five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Five ways AI is saving wildlife \u2013 from counting chimps to locating whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect species around the world<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a strand of thinking, from sci-fi films to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/oct\/19\/stephen-hawking-ai-best-or-worst-thing-for-humanity-cambridge\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> that suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humans. But conservationists are increasingly turning to AI as an innovative tech solution to tackle the biodiversity crisis and mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlabs.net\/resources\/community-announcements\/state-conservation-technology-2021\">Wildlabs.net<\/a> found that AI was one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation. From camera trap and satellite images to audio recordings, the report notes: \u201cAI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings \u2013 hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/feb\/21\/five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fd792e8670ae68cd20acf9b2ec83a09e0499829f\/127_6_1779_1067\/master\/1779.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=928b5d6b4c203d79d68a81dc1b59f172\" title=\"Five ways AI is saving wildlife \u2013 from counting chimps to locating whales\" \/>Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect species around the world<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a strand of thinking, from sci-fi films to Stephen Hawking that suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humans. But conservationists are increasingly turning to AI as an innovative tech solution to tackle the biodiversity crisis and mitigate climate change.<br \/>\nA recent report by Wildlabs.net found that AI was one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation. From camera trap and satellite images to audio recordings, the report notes: \u201cAI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings \u2013 hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect species around the world There\u2019s a strand of thinking, from sci-fi films to Stephen Hawking that suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humans. But conservationists are increasingly turning to AI as an innovative tech solution to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/five-ways-ai-is-saving-wildlife-from-counting-chimps-to-locating-whales\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five ways AI is saving wildlife \u2013 from counting chimps to locating whales<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}