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Jane Goodall Institute uses AI to preserve chimpanzee research
The Jane Goodall Institute worked with AWS to identify AI use cases. They're digitizing decades of research and preserving Goodall's contributions.
TL;DR
- The Jane Goodall Institute is leveraging AI and machine learning to digitize over six decades of handwritten chimpanzee research notes.
- A new tool, the Gombe AI Research Platform, developed with Amazon Web Services, aims to store and make disparate data more accessible.
- AI capabilities include multimedia search, video scene detection, chimpanzee facial recognition, behavioral analysis, and automated data processing/translation.
- The institute has a backlog of data awaiting digitization, and AI is expected to help catch up.
- The project also supports research into current chimpanzee behaviors, such as civil war in Kibale National Park.