The Haikubox Brings High-Tech Birding to the Masses

In order to find patterns, it first needs to learn what the pattern is. Cornell's library of birdsong recordings provides the training that the AI needs to learn which sounds are bird songs and which ones are you watering the garden. Cornell has been tweaking its neural net for some time. If you'd like to experience this without investing in a Haikubox, you can grab Cornell's Merlin Bird ID app, which relies on a small subset of the data and an AI processor similar to what the Haikubox uses. Haikubox creator David Mann told WIRED that the Haikubox uses a modified version of BirdNet, which is called BirdNet for Haikubox.