Scientists are using artificial intelligence to identify new animal species. But can we trust the results?
The model learned to recognize species from images and DNA data, Badirli said. During training, the researchers withheld the identities of some known species, so they were unknown to the model. The researchers blamed that in part on the low resolution of the images, which came from a public database. They noted that the model's accuracy would improve with experience and higher-resolution images.
"We have this amazing hardware, and we can put it out to collect all of this data, but then without the AI, we have no chance of analyzing it," Lawson said.