How AI Is Unearthing Hidden Scientific Knowledge - Sara Beery - TED

Munyori

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   Chikamu 1: Imagine you're a doctor and you're trying to save the life of a patient, but you can only see a fifth of their body. 302s · Speaker 1

   Imagine you're a doctor and you're trying to save the life of a patient, but you can only see a fifth of their body. How are you going to prescribe medicine? How are you going to do surgery? See, this is exactly the situation we're in with …

2. 5:11

   Chikamu 2: knowledge of a local food chain. 64s · Speaker 1

   knowledge of a local food chain. Take this much knowledge in one image and multiply it by 300 million images in iNaturalist. And then add in our other ecological databases. Millions of bioacoustic recordings in Xenocanto. Tens of millions o…

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   Chikamu 3: Now, once they've trained this model, it's an incredible tool. 301s · Speaker 2

   Now, once they've trained this model, it's an incredible tool. It can very, very quickly find new examples of birds eating insects in the database. But this process of collecting hundreds or thousands of examples every time we want to look …

4. 11:17

   Chikamu 4: that supports conservation actions. 89s · Speaker 1

   that supports conservation actions. Things like understanding how to ensure that food and habitat resources are available to species when they need them most, when they're migrating through an area, when they're breeding or rearing young, o…