Angel Valentin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Declining species in rainforests around the world may have a second chance of survival due to artificial intelligence technology, experts told ABC News.
Researchers from environment nonprofit Rainforest Connection and Google.org, the tech company s philanthropy branch, said they have found a way to use AI to monitor and conserve species in threatened ecosystems as rainforests bear the brunt of impacts from hazards like global warming, deforestation and development.
"Now, with the use of AI, we re able to analyze hundreds of thousands of recordings," Bourhan Yassin, CEO of Rainforest Connection, told ABC News.. "A process that used to take four and a half months for a single scientist to analyze one species, we can do that in seconds."
The conservationists chose rainforests in Puerto Rico as the first case study for using the open-source AI platform Arbimom, which is designed for biodiversity monitoring through acoustics. I
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