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AI is being trained to help identify dinosaur tracks.
Outside of its more controversial applications, AI is analyzing fossilized footprints at the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument in Australia (via The Register).
First believed to be left by a predatory dinosaur, the neural network instead said the footprints belonged to an unidentified, non-predatory ornithopod. Performance is admittedly limited due to small sample sizes, but researchers claim the AI model outperformed human experts during testing. Clever girl.
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