Last week we spotted an invitation to an event in Hamilton that had us intrigued; it was a conversation about how artificial intelligence can help identify the birds singing around us.
We hear so much about how terrible AI is, we wanted to learn about how it could be used for good.
Dr Andrew Lensen certainly thinks it can be, he's a computer scientist leading MBIE-funded “AI for good” work, including using computer vision to recognise individual kākā and related projects on kiwi call recognition.
A Kākā at Zealandia Wildlife Reserve. Photo: Nick Ut
