The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Baidu unveiled AI Guardian of Endangered Species 2.0 today, expanding their technological arsenal against illegal wildlife trade. This AI-powered system identifies 34 commonly traded species on online platforms with an 86% accuracy rate. The release comes at a critical time. Since 2005, IFAW has observed wildlife traders adapting their methods to evade detection, prompting the organization to embrace artificial intelligence solutions. The first version of AI Guardian, developed in 2019 using Baidu’s PaddlePaddle deep learning platform, has proven effective – screening 360,000 suspected illegal wildlife product images and detecting 21,271 images of … Continue reading AI Tackles Wildlife Trafficking: 360,000 Images Screened, 7,853 Illegal Ads Removed