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What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds
Trees are better at designing habitat than we are. Can we use machine learning to get some tips?
These structures can provide important habitat features such as elevated perches, nesting boxes and bark that do not occur in planted tree saplings. Instead of judging the resulting designs by how much they resembled a tree to human eyes, we used our bird behaviour model to figure out how these structures might serve avian inhabitants. Extending existing efforts to communicate with whales, bats and honeybees, this approach uses AI to incorporate input from nonhuman lifeforms to produce new and better designs.
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