This A.I. birdwatcher lets you ‘see’ through the eyes of a machine. Duke Today, October 31, 2019. It can take years of birdwatching experience to tell one species from the next. But using an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning, Duke University researchers have trained a computer to identify up to 200 species of birds from just a photo. This tool goes beyond giving the right answer to explain its thinking in a way that even someone who doesn’t know a penguin from a puffin can understand. Picked up by BBC Digital Planet and MIT Technology Review.