How Montreal researchers are using AI to discover new species
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Scientists in Montreal are harnessing AI technology for good, enabling entomologists to discover new species and better understand the effects of climate change.
Seen in sci-fi movies, artificial intelligence (AI) has often been villainized.
But scientists in Montreal are harnessing the technology for good, enabling entomologists to discover new species and better understand the effects of climate change.
The project’s seed was planted in Montreal’s Insectarium where there are more than 3,000 insects and some 1,500 free-flying butterflies. It’s not exactly easy to know all the critters by name.
That’s why the Insectarium’s director, Maxim Larrivée, partnered up with David Rolnick’s artificial intelligence research team to develop an app.
You take a photo and the app’s software tells you what the insect is.
The app’s success got the duo thinking.
“We went, ‘Wait a minute, maybe we could actually monitor in real time the diversity of moths in nature by taking photographs,'” said Larrivée.
This is where AMI comes in. “The AMI system, for ‘Automated Monitoring of Insects,'” Larrivée said.
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