Date: 4/6/25 7:40 pm From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: [birders] The rise of A.I. in Consumer Electronics…
and Big Brother in the outdoors. The military has been using network-based pattern recognition for years. Lately, this technology has found its way to the consumer market. Bird-Buddy and Birdfy have been using visual-based platforms in their feeders and nest boxes for a few years and today…I learned there are companies using audio-capture devices. Just wondering what you folks think about these. I might jump in but the recurring subscription fees seem onerous. One of these devices calls itself a “soundscape analyzer”. Similar to “Ring” and other cloud-based camera systems, can you imagine if law enforcement avails themselves of the content of millions of these distributed monitoring stations? Both very beneficial and very scary from a privacy perspective. High-gain and high fidelity with centralized digital processing? Wow.
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