Swarovski’s new AI binoculars can identify 9,000 bird species

Swarovski’s new AI binoculars can identify 9,000 bird species

I’m not sure this is a good idea — technology is advancing so fast, it’s hard to keep up. The latest invention is a pair of binoculars that can identify the birds for you. Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use built-in GPS and image-recognition AI to know where you are and what you’re looking at. It relies on the same photo database that powers Merlin, the bird identification app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Supposedly, these new…