A new Curious Minds project will empower school students to use artificial intelligence to help with biodiversity.
Wildlife.ai, a charitable trust that uses artificial intelligence to help with wildlife conservation, will work with students to investigate locally relevant scientific issues.
Programme co-ordinator and facilitator Portia Smith says the programme is funded by Curious Minds, Toi Foundation and the Mazda Foundation.
“Wild about AI is a collaboration between Wildlife.ai, the Department of Conservation (DoC) and Te Ara Taiao. The new programme will tie in with Wildlife.ai’s established project Spyfish Aotearoa, a citizen science and machine-learning approach to identify fish in baited underwater videos. We will use the baited videos captured in Spyfish Aoateroa for this programme.”