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New genre of artificial intelligence programs take computer hacking to another level

Another AI innovation that could help India in its tiger conservation and the anti-tiger-poaching campaign is PAWS or Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security. Developed five years back and tested in Malaysia and Uganda, the AI application incorporates game theory model for wildlife protection. It analyses terrain and topography, incorporates paths of the animals and patrol routes that poachers avoid and applies it to a machine learning algorithm that prescribes randomised patrol routes to predict routes poachers might take.
Last year, wildlife conservationists and forest patrol combined PAWS with another algorithm called CAPTURE8 or Comprehensive Anti-Poaching Tool with Temporal and Observation Uncertainty Reasoning. CAPTURE uses similar data and tools like PAWS and SPOT to predict the area and likeliness of an attack rather than predictive route mapping.
In India, where despite the growing population of tigers, poaching is proliferating, a combination of data analytics and AI tools that collect and process wildlife crime data and predict tiger poaching, will change the way tiger reserves and conservation efforts work. Those reserves that have had experience with infrared cameras and drones, as well as those which are understaffed, underequipped and poorly armed can use AI and analytics to make anti-poaching futureproof.
Souma Das is managing director at Teradata India
                                                                NEGINEA IT PVT LTD

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