Artificial intelligence is rushing to the wildlife conservation rescue. It’s especially showing in Ecuador, where scientists have set up advanced recording devices capable of gathering wildlife sounds, even the merest of such. Once recordings are captured, AI takes over, quite remarkably.
Standing out amid jungle sound harvests are birds of every ilk and feather. Ecuadorian jungles resound with avian sound-offs like few other places in the world.
Programmed to interpret every call or song, AI instantly identifies the source species.
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