The Citizen Science Revolution and Artificial Intelligence

by Michael Bear for SciTech Connect
Nov. 17, 2017

Note: this article features iNaturalist and how it's using AI to help ID species.

Two revolutions have been occurring at the same time in recent years: the citizen science revolution and the artificial intelligence revolution. And revolution is not too strong a term to use for either.

Although one could say that citizen science has been around since the days of Darwin, since he had no formal degrees in his field and pursued his studies of evolution out of personal interest, it has been more or less in the last 5 years or so that citizen science has really come into its own as an academic discipline.

http://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/citizen-science-revolution-artificial-intelligence/

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