Artificial intelligence will eavesdrop on world's wildest places to track and help protect …

PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica — The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track.
So biologist Jenna Lawson hid 350 audio monitors in trees across Costa Rica’s lush Osa Peninsula to spy on them.
The devices recorded the sounds of the forest and surrounding countryside for a week, collecting so much data that Lawson could have spent years listening to it all.
Instead, she fed it into artificial intelligence systems […]
Artificial intelligence will eavesdrop on world's wildest places to track and help protect …