How nature lovers can aid ecology with an assist from AI
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THE AI ANGLE
Extracting and categorizing species interactions from public commentsResearchers used language models to find and categorize species interactions from comments on participatory science platforms. The software processed hundreds of unstructured notes in minutes instead of hours. Ecologists can now assemble interaction datasets across broad geographical areas without continuous fieldwork.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Classes can evaluate using language models to build datasets from amateur notes while reserving analytical tasks for human scientists.Read the original at phys.org Generate teaching or study materials
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