Scientists state that the country's largest ever woodland survey of bats would simply not have been feasible without artificial intelligence, which completed an analysis that would have taken more than 30 years to process manually. Scientists report that efficient open-source AI tools allow teams to identify millions of bat calls across thousands of nights of recordings, recognize patterns, and flag species at a national scale.
Researchers left monitoring devices on poles among the trees of 310 woodlands across Britain, recording 98 million bat calls over a period of three years.
Researchers noted that it has been quite exciting to observe some of the rarest species popping up in Somerset as part of the survey.
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 have been recorded in the south-west of England.
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"It's been quite exciting some of the rarest species popping up in Somerset as part of the survey.