Can artificial intelligence help us identify the 80 percent of life still unknown?
In short: Scientists estimate that the vast majority of life on Earth remains undiscovered. As habitats vanish, we are losing species at an alarming rate. AI naturalist Sara Beery explains how we can leverage millions of existing images and recordings to uncover this hidden biological knowledge before it disappears forever.
Sara Beery argues that the tools required to catalog and protect our planet's biodiversity are already within our reach. By applying artificial intelligence to vast, underutilized datasets—including millions of photographs, audio recordings, and field observations—researchers can identify species and track ecological changes with unprecedented speed.
This approach is urgent because climate change is accelerating habitat loss, threatening species before they are even documented. Beery's work suggests that the key to conservation lies not just in new exploration, but in our ability to effectively process the massive archives of data we have already collected.
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