Another cool use of AI/ML that absolutely no one is talking about is the Merlin bird identifier from Cornell: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/

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IKR? It's so fun to take this app into a park.

The UI is so elegant, too—it shows a live spectrogram of the sounds the mic is picking up, new birds IDed automatically populate on the bottom half of the screen, and whenever the app IDs a bird call, it highlights the card for that bird in real-time.

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I love Merlin for birdwatching! Got introed to it by @coravos

Thanks for the share! I’ve gotten better at ID’ing birds by sight but I’ve been too intimidated or lazy to start learning sounds.