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The World’s Loneliest Plant Is Looking For A Partner And AI Is Lending A Hand
Finding a female is key to bringing the species back from the brink.
If you’ve ever felt bad about leaning on a bit of tech to help your love life, rest assured – at least you’re not having to use drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to find a partner (at least we hope not). To give E. woodii a helping hand, a team of researchers have taken to combing the Ngoye Forest, which has never been fully explored before, with drones in an attempt to find a female partner. “With the AI, we are using an image recognition algorithm in order to recognise plants by shape,” explained Dr Laura Cinti, who is leading the project, in a statement.
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