Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 16:32
in Mathematics & Economics
Traditionally, fossil-hunters often could only make educated guesses as to where fossils lie. The rest lay with chance. But thanks to a new software model, fossil-hunters' reliance on luck when finding fossils may be diminishing. Using artificial neural networks, researchers developed a computer model that can pinpoint productive fossil sites.