AI helping QLD Indigenous community preserve its history
Artificial intelligence is helping an indigenous community in far North Queensland preserve its culture and history. Archaeologists and AI specialists teamed up with local indigenous rangers to capture and document their rock art.
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00:00 Artificial intelligence and ancient rock art.
00:05 It's an unlikely pairing, but it's helping this indigenous community in far north Queensland
00:10 preserve its culture.
00:11 The old people painted of what they seen, what was the resources they used, what did
00:17 they hunt.
00:18 More than 10,000 rock art sites surround Laura, telling the history of the land in this remote
00:24 and rugged part of Cape York.
00:26 There's a lot of new ones being found in the past few years.
00:31 Same stone that the paints have been painted on and it gets eaten away.
00:35 Archaeologists and AI specialists have partnered with indigenous rangers to find ways to document
00:41 the fragile motifs.
00:43 If instead of us having to manually sit there and say this is a kangaroo, it's red and white,
00:48 it's in this position, if we could get an AI to learn how to do that.
00:53 More better ways of documenting the rock art and that too, a lot easier.
01:01 The project is also giving primary school students valuable skills as they use the AI
01:06 app in the classroom and take it on country.
01:12 What have you been doing with the rock art and the project here in Laura?
01:16 Taking pictures.
01:17 We're learning a lot from the rangers.
01:22 The images, like the art, will still be owned by the indigenous community.
01:27 All the old people are smiling, they've seen paintings that they haven't seen since they
01:30 were kids and some paintings they haven't seen.
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