When states want to gauge quail populations, the process can be grueling, time-consuming and expensive. It means spending hours in the field listening for calls. Or leaving a recording device in the field to catch what sounds are made--only to spend hours later listening to that audio. Then, repeating this process until there's enough information to start making population estimates. But a new model developed by researchers at the University of Georgia aims to streamline this process. By using artificial intelligence to analyze terabytes of recordings for quail calls, the process gives wildlife managers the ability to gather the data they need in a matter of minutes.

It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered the recording studio with a daunting task: They would train an AI on 14 years of their music, then synthesize the results into the album "Chain Tripping." "I'm not interested in being a reactionary," YACHT member and tech writer Claire L. Evans said in a documentary about the album. "I don't want to return to my roots and play acoustic guitar because I'm so freaked out about the coming robot apocalypse, but I also don't want to jump into the trenches and welcome our new robot overlords either." But our new robot overlords are making a whole lot of progress in the space of AI music generation. Even though the Grammy-nominated "Chain Tripping" was released in 2019, the technology behind it is already becoming outdated.

It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered the recording studio with a daunting task: They would train an AI on 14 years of their music, then synthesize the results into the album "Chain Tripping." "I'm not interested in being a reactionary," YACHT member and tech writer Claire L. Evans said in a documentary about the album. "I don't want to return to my roots and play acoustic guitar because I'm so freaked out about the coming robot apocalypse, but I also don't want to jump into the trenches and welcome our new robot overlords either." But our new robot overlords are making a whole lot of progress in the space of AI music generation. Even though the Grammy-nominated "Chain Tripping" was released in 2019, the technology behind it is already becoming outdated.