Professor François Grondin from the University of Sherbrooke and his team won the final of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition.
The challenge was to list as many species as possible from the Amazon rainforest and analyze them in less than 72 hours, covering 100 hectares of Brazilian forest.
Listen to the interview given by Professor François Grondin from the University of Sherbrooke to hosts Steve Roy and Valérie St-Jean.
The team, made up of around sixty people from several universities, used artificial intelligence models to analyze the data collected.
About the team that won the final of the XPRIZE competition – Rainforest
Limelights Rainforest, the team that won the grand prize of the competition, is made up of around sixty scientists from the fields of biology, ecology, anthropology, zoology, computer science, engineering, etc. Its members come from seven universities in five countries.
About the XPRIZES
The XPRIZES are an entity resulting from philanthropic donations which organizes international competitions on various subjects. One of the best known is that which led to the formation of Elon Musk’s Space X, whose rocket was to land on Earth after its use with the aim of reusing it. The $10 million Ansari of a crew, which would finally make private space travel commercially viable.
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