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AI is helping rangers protect Victorian wildlife in a fraction of the time (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 week ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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A new AI tool will help Parks Victoria to respond in a mere fraction of the time to native and endangered species affected by natural disasters... The species recognition model uses high-speed AI to process 20 images per second and can identify more than 200 native and feral species.

And what puts the cherry on top is that the AI tool has been set up on a **free, open source platform **.

Pre-existing AI systems were operated by large tech companies so they owned the data. Researchers and land managers generally want to keep control of their data."

The Parks Victoria model is not only open source, but it also runs on your computer rather than in the cloud, which increases data security. That is particularly relevant for our threatened species or species that are at risk of poaching. It is also free of charge.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Probably some anti-AI kneejerk. This isnt a LLM, its an image recognition model, completely different thing. And its not even stealing a job, becuase no human can watch trailcam footage 24hrs a day.