Boskoi 2010 > Augmented Ecology 2014 > Machine Wilderness 2015 > Environmental Machine Learning (2018?)

• if/how the concept of the 'umwelt' in biological creatures relates to the 'world view' (as Memo Akten called it) that forms in artificial neural networks during training.
• how do animals, plants or machines learn through experience and exposure?
• how much of us humans is present in the 'robotic eye'? (Or more broadly: In an age of AI do we hold on to us being the humans?)
• can these 'synthetic' worldviews give us fresh perspectives on our environment and the lives that creatures live there?
• how do strategies of environmental observation compare/relate in AI, choreography, ecology, art, landscaping, traditional practices, etc..
• can machine learning expand environmental literacy in technology/society?

• fieldwork: exploration through interactions between man-machine-environment in-situ
• prototyping
• critical reflection
• multimodal and transdisciplinary approach: could the project also give room to explore observation strategies from various domains of human inquiry and probe them in-situ?

• “Adoption of Machine Learning Techniques in #Ecology and Earth Science. Thessen [2016]” » https://t.co/D1hOba8AY7
• “Machine Learning without Tears: A primer for Ecologists. Olden et al [2008]” » https://t.co/N1l1JKYqqh
• “Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies” > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347216303360
• “Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview” > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158798/
• A Practical Guide To Machine Learning In Ecology
• Machine Learning, Meet Ocean
• Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene
• "What do Buddist Monks Think about the Trolley Problem"
• "How The Random Forest Algorithm Works In Machine Learning"
• "Random Forest: Many Is Better Than One"
• https://deepmind.com/blog/understanding-agent-cooperation/Understanding Agent Cooperation
• Tree’s Company: AI Maps Biological Riches of the Rainforest
• Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
• Artificial intelligence and expert systems in ecology and natural resource management
• Super machine learning: improving accuracy and reducing variance of behaviour classification from accelerometry
• Intelligent Biosphere
• Not In Front Of The Bots (dutch)

• Embodied cognition is not what you think it is

• machine_learning
• machine_ecology
• http://machinewilderness.net