Alan

One is very invasive, like you put a collar on the lion, so you have to go there.

Good luck with that.

Yeah, good luck with that.

You have to go there, sedate the animal.

The collars are expensive and you need to replace a battery every year.

And there's the other method, which is tracking that's non-invasive.

So photographers will go with a telephoto, capture these photos from very far away, and it turns out that the lions, they can be uniquely identified.

So this is like, within the species, I can tell if this lion is Bob or if this lion is Alice based on their whisker patterns.

so they will conserve the whisker patterns since they're cubs and the idea here is like these organizations have a data set of many photographers of lions taken through the years and whenever there's a new photo we can actually use AI to match it to the existing database so they can see oh this lion was actually found in another reservoir like hundreds of miles away and now it's moved here so that gives them data to be able to protect those lands.

Yeah, and those are kind of the use cases of AI for good of the world.

It's something that is really interesting for us.

Wow.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

I mean, you also hear the kind of dystopian stories about what the potential of that technology is.

Like, look at China, what they're doing.

Right, mass surveillance.

Massive surveillance, yeah.

But I feel like the underlying technology is not bad or anything.

If it's used for good purposes, I think it can make a huge difference.

They do.