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Researchers in Canada are using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor the ongoing mass extinction of insects. They are hoping to collect data that can help reverse species collapse.
“Of all the mass extinctions we have experienced in the past, the one affecting insects is happening a thousand times faster,” said Maxim Larrivee, director of the Montreal Insectarium.
For the Montreal-based project, Antenna, some data collection is happening inside the insectarium under a large transparent dome. Thousands of butterflies, ants and praying mantises are being studied.
Larrivee said high-resolution cameras, low-cost sensors, and AI models could process data and double the amount of biodiversity information collected over the last 150 years in just two to five years.
Answer: By using high-resolution cameras, low-cost sensors, and AI models