EVERY SIGNAL, SORTED.

United Kingdom, International Ecology Research, Queen Mary University of London, Nature Machine Intelligence, Ecological Foundation Models, Biodiversity, Conservation, Multimodal Data, Field Observations, Indigenous Data Governance, Uncertainty, Environmental Costs and Human Review

Ecologists want foundation models for nature. Keep the field observation attached

An international team has proposed a foundation model that could connect genes, images, sounds, satellite data, species records and ecological theory. The model does not exist yet. If it gets built, every predicted relationship should travel with the field evidence, missing places, uncertainty and people who can say no.