Google Created Wild Animal Protection Artificial Intelligence

JAKARTA - A wild animal conservation, Conversation International, together with Google created an artificial intelligent (AI) to monitor animals in the wild so that they can be better protected.

Quoted from Digital Trends, Wednesday, December 18 2019, monitoring the animals uses a camera that can take a closer picture of the animals. The resulting images will be automatically uploaded to Google Cloud so that they can be used as a database.

AI made by Google will identify images and visualize these wild animals with maps and analyze the health of these animal species.

"With this data, administrators of protected areas or anti-poaching programs can see the health condition of certain species and local governments can use the data to make policies and develop conservation measures," said Google representative Tanya Birch and Conservation International's Jorge Ahumada.

From the photos, the locations of the animals will also be attached. But for the sake of security, the location will also be protected so that the animal's habitats are not disturbed.

The main purpose of monitoring animals in the wild is to identify species more quickly. An information from the Wildlife Sights website says that with the program, usually experts can examine 300 to about a thousand images per hour.

However, Google's AI can analyze 3.6 million photos per hour and automatically classify animals.

"Although species identification can be a challenging task for an AI, among the 614 species we trained AI, species such as jaguars, white-lip peccaries, and African elephants had 80% to 98.6% correct predictions," he said. Wildlife Insights website.

The camera can capture some funny pictures, such as a close-up photo of a monkey's nose or a baby jaguar rolling on the grass. Many areas have been captured by the camera, such as the Nature Reserve in Central Suriname, the Lokaitra Forest in Madagascar, to the Pasoh Forest in Malaysia.