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Taxonomists should work with specialists in pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence, say Norman MacLeod, Mark Benfield and Phil Culverhouse — more accuracy and less drudgery will result.

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  1. Norman MacLeod is in the Palaeontology Department of the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. n.macleod@nhm.ac.uk,

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  2. Mark Benfield is in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA. mbenfie@lsu.edu,

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  3. Phil Culverhouse is at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA. UK. pculverhouse@plymouth.ac.uk ,

    Phil Culverhouse

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MacLeod, N., Benfield, M. & Culverhouse, P. Time to automate identification. Nature 467, 154–155 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467154a

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