How A Tech Company Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Save Elephants From Poaching
A centuries-old problem that has affected nearly every region on Earth is about to get a high-tech solution.
Artificial intelligence company Neurala is using machine learning coupled with cameras and drones to put a stop to the poaching crisis in Africa. Focusing on the rhino population (which, for just black rhinos, has dwindled by 97.6 percent since 1960) and African elephants (35,000 of which were killed last year), the company is enhancing the Lindbergh Foundation’s effort to track and predict the paths of both at-risk animals and the poachers who are hunting them.
Read more: http://observer.com/2017/05/artificial-intelligence-can-stop-elephant-rhino-poaching-in-africa/
