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Rhinos and Their Gamekeepers Benefit from AI

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Starting in 2017, an artificial intelligence monitoring system at the Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa has been helping to protect rhinos and their caretakers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.5

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

0:37.2

I'm Steve Merski.

0:38.7

So what is the connection between AI and Ranasirai?

0:42.4

Surprisingly direct.

0:43.9

Bernard Mayerson, chief innovation officer at IBM.

0:47.8

He spoke recently at the Cooper Union here in New York City as part of a panel discussing the intersection of artificial intelligence,

0:55.1

AI, ethics, and health care. So where do rhinos come in? As you know, poaching rhinos is a huge

1:01.7

problem. The rhinoceros horn represents about 30 years of revenue, 30 years of income to an individual

1:07.9

in sub-Saharan Africa. And that is why, basically, if you manage to kill a rhino and get a horn, essentially,

1:16.2

it's like winning the lottery.

1:17.2

Unfortunately, it's not so good for the rhino, not to mention you deplete a precious

1:20.9

species yet again, and poaching is a huge issue.

1:24.6

What people don't know is about a thousand gamekeepers.

1:28.7

The UN kept numbers until I think 2014 have been murdered by poachers in order to get at the animals being protected.

1:34.5

This is about humans. Well, how do you basically protect rhinos with AI? That's a good question.

1:41.2

Somebody said, you know, being a kid who grew up in the bronx my thought as well you

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