# Novel uses of AI

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**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novel-uses-of-ai/983394 "2023-05-01T00:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novel-uses-of-ai/983394/1 "2023-05-01T00:13:44Z")

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I’d like to start a thread featuring novel uses of AI. Sure, a lot of these are pure hype (and will turn out to have no popsicles). No doubt there will be thousands of these alleged applications, so you might as well collect them _somewhere_ before you eventually end up toiling in the sugar caves.

Such as this.

> **[Could AI save the Amazon rainforest?](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/29/could-ai-save-amazon-rainforest-artificial-intelligence-conservation-deforestation)**
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> Conservationists in the Brazilian Amazon are using a new tool to predict the next sites of deforestation – and it may prove a gamechanger in the war on logging

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novel-uses-of-ai/983394/2 "2023-05-01T02:55:04Z")

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Personally, it seems like garbage/recycling sorting is a prime application for AI.

[AI and Waste Recognition - Why It Works So Well - Recycleye](https://recycleye.com/ai-and-waste-recognition-why-it-works-so-well/)

I haven’t heard much about it being adopted very widely though.