It can take years of birdwatching experience to tell one species from the next. But using an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning, researchers have trained a computer to identify up to 200 species of birds from just a photo. This tool goes beyond giving the right answer to explain its thinking, in a way that even someone who doesn’t know a penguin from a puffin can understand.
This AI birdwatcher lets you ‘see’ through the eyes of a machine: New research aims to open the ‘black box’ of computer vision
