Saving The Elephants
Brooke Lierman
The companies Resolve and TrailGuard have created an AI system (Alternate Intelligence) that can take pictures of poachers and send a signal to park rangers. The AI system is the size of a thumb nail and is mounted in trees and in the brush. The system uses motion sensors, sounds of animal distress and cameras to sense if there are cars or people who should not be around the wildlife ,specifically elephants. If the sensor picks something up it will take a picture of the person or car and will send it to the park rangers. The rangers will then go to the spot of the sensor to protect the animals from being killed.This has led to the identifications of 20 pictures from different gangs. This is an important new technology because it is predicted that the 100,000 elephants left in Africa will be gone in 10 years.
Image credit : Intel https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/03/trailguard-ai-uses-intel-ai-tech-to-prevent-african-elephant-poaching/
Questions:
Why do you think being risk being caught poaching, when so many people are getting caught?
Do you think the people poaching will find ways around this system?
Do you think this will help the elephant population grow?
Source of article:
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/03/trailguard-ai-uses-intel-ai-tech-to-prevent-african-elephant-poaching/
ReplyDeleteI think that using the cameras is a good idea. This way people we not be able to stay it is not them. We will now have hard evidence and hopefully be able to stop this problem. Maggie kilcullin
this is a great idea and im so glad to hear that it is working, i just hope the resolutions of the pictures get better.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a step in the right direction, and will hopefully deter people from committing this horrible crime. -Ashley Herman
ReplyDeleteI think it's a really cool idea, but it might be tough to make the cameras and find places to put them. This wouldn't work very well for wild elephants, since they move around a lot and it would be hard tracking them.
ReplyDeleteIan He
This is an excellent topic, but i do think that people will find a way around this system though this is a step in the right direction. i also feel for the time being this increase the elephant population.
ReplyDeleteI think the cameras are really going to help caught the people that are trying to kill the elephants and get there tusks-Alvi Lending
ReplyDeletei think the elephant population, probably won't grow just a little bit
ReplyDeleteI think it's going to be a while before we see a significant change with the amount of poachers.
ReplyDeleteI think poachers will always find a way around our systems, after all they know that they're poaching because its illegal. I do believe that taking steps toward inventing many solutions to prevent poaching is a great start to solving an issue that's very common in the economy. I also think that in taking preventive measures, the elephants might repopulate to a healthy number.
ReplyDeleteI think that its great that they have something to catch the poachers with. -Jason Williams
ReplyDeletei dont think this is gonna help in anyy way cause the elephnats will get killed and justice will be served after the deed so they need to do something from elephnants being killed and catching the poachers second
ReplyDeleteUse the cameras as a sense of security towards the elephants, maybe 24 hour surveillance
ReplyDeleteI think using a camera to catch the poachers is a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI feel that people should try to find another way. Killing elephants are lowing their population
ReplyDeletei think the poachers will find away because people find ways around everything BTandooooooooooo Mckinley
ReplyDeleteWe need to ssave elepha nts
ReplyDeleteThis camera system can help the elephant population grow because it will decrease the amount of poaching that is happening. -Jeffrey
ReplyDeleteI think this AI system is very unique because it would scare people into not killing the animal and if they do they can see who did it -christa medcalf
ReplyDeleteI think that is is an awesome technology -brooke lierman
ReplyDeletei believe that this is a great idea because that helps save animals and other living things that are in risk of death.
ReplyDeleteWe need to save elephants becusase of the food chain
ReplyDeleteThey are herbevores which menatsd meat eaters eat them
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ReplyDeletethe camera is a good sense of security and monitoring of the elephants, 24/7
We need to save elephants~Willie
ReplyDeleteI think using cameras to catch elephant poachers is a good idea and it seems to be working but I do hope that the resolution gets better so we can get a clear picture, I also think there are ways around the system like wearing a ski mask. Joe Peck
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