Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?

New technology has revolutionized how we study wild animals, but it has also bogged down scientists with data...luckily, there's an *intelligent* solution.

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To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:
Deep learning: a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence that can learning from data that is unstructured or unlabeled
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Credits (and Twitter handles):
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Alex Reich, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg, Julián Gómez, Sarah Berman

Image Credits: All the photos of the savannah by the SnapshotSerengeti Project

Sogod Bay Whale Shark video by Miguel Hilario

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References:

Packer C, personal communication (2019, September 12).

[acediadekay]

I just wanted to know how many Zebras there is in the photo 😢

[phosphorus]

Disclaimer: This program has not been tested in a head-to-head trial against the Terminator and/or Clippy.

[LightBusterX]

So... when the scientist *met a ton* of pictures, they call the AI? Nice.

[hockdudu]

That's nice, but...




How many zebras are in this photo?

[nunyubiznezz]

It's a montage of ONE zebra composited in many different poses.

[connorking]

"Throw machine learning at the problem."

[nicholask]

1:17
I'm sure that system would be able to do a MettaTON of work

[itsastrocat]

Okay at 1:20 who was the nerd who illustrated mettaton into this video because I need to know.

[CityOfNashville]

I was expecting this to be about Project Zooniverse, a site where everyday people can go and help scientific teams look through data in order to expedite the process. Lots of fun and easy projects on there and you get to help science in the process

[affanafrizalgani]

"80 YEARS of YouTube videos







UPLOADED THAT DAY"

[GeniusGamingIsCool]

1:23
Nobody:
Metaton: NEW GAME SHOW - NAME THAT CRITTER

[yjqzlok]

There are 56 Zebras in the photo







Yes I counted them

[alinayossimouse]

Nice Turing and Mettaton references. Someone likes good indie games

[yusacetin]

1:20 isn't that mettaton from undertale?

[JS-pkgv]

1:28 that's not the mettaton ex I remember.

[rain.]

Everyone's talking about mettaton, but no one's talking about my boy turing (1:28) that POPS OUT OF HIM

[kavyavijay]

1:18 is that Mettaton making a guest appearance?

[malbacato]

1:17 that's mettaton.
_cue Death by Glamour_

[animal_gal_adventures]

1:15 wait a minute that machine looks **oh yes is heard in the background.**

[lonagen]

And so, the conclusion of my grand thesis on hyenas. It’s taken me years of research, and cost a whole lot outa my own pockets but, I can categorically say, without any hesitation:
Hyenas are pretty weird.