In order to monitor the amount of wildlife on their land, farmers are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI).
Conrad Young, a developer from Cheltenham, founded a system called Chirrup.
The dawn chorus recordings are used to identify specific bird species.
It keeps track of the recordings to create a picture of the bird population, which aids in determining the degree of biodiversity. It creates an ever-more-detailed database as more sounds are captured.
When we tell it to listen, it pretty much acts like a real person is there all the time, according to Mr. Young.
Peter Cheek, the farm's manager, has begun utilizing the system at his Godminster farm, which he converted to an organic farm in 1999.
Mr. Cheek claimed that it was a cost-effective way to regularly assess the diversity of the farm and expressed the hope that learning more about the farm's bird population would help him determine the safety of his crops.
They describe insects, and since we are organic, we don't use any insecticides, sprays, or other similar methods.
Therefore, if we have those insects and the birds are eating them, then they are also eating other bugs that are attempting to harm the crops. ".
The system's capacity to evaluate what it detects improves over time.
Oddly, the computer isn't actually listening to sound; instead, it's viewing a spectrogram, or a representation of the sound, said Mr. Young. ".
Mike Jones, who works with a center in Shepton Mallet to oversee innovative farm engineering projects, thinks AI is revolutionizing agricultural productivity.
As he put it, "it's about learning how to use this technology to the advantage of the environment, the farm business itself, and just to make everything more efficient."
