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AI makes Britain's largest woodland bat survey possible, scientists say (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Britain's largest ever woodland survey of bats would "simply not have been feasible" without AI, scientists say.

Researchers left devices on poles among the trees of 310 woodlands across Britain, recording 98 million bat calls over three years, which would have taken more than 30 years to analyse without AI.

Some of Britain's rarest and most threatened bats, including the red-listed Barbastelle, have been recorded in the south-west of England, including Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset.

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[–] 1 point 6 days ago

This sounds like a very focused single purpose ai, I’d be surprised if this had anything to do with LLMs.

Nothing wrong with it, but I think BBC’s framing as a positive ai story feels a bit forced when nobodies had any problem with this kind of ai in the first place

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