GoKawiilNew AI model OneStrata recasts three of Earth's 'Big Five' extinctions as gradual declines
Researchers trained a machine-learning model, OneStrata, on global fossil-record data rather than text, using it to reconstruct biodiversity changes across hundreds of millions of years. The model, presented at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver on October 12, indicates that three of the so-called Big Five mass extinctions unfolded as gradual declines rather than sudden catastrophic events.