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Artificial intelligence will be used to wage war on monkeys as their rampages wreak havoc on humans.

The primates will be tracked and sterilised using a new AI solution in a desperate bid to control the population.

A group of researchers at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, working with Microsoft AI for Earth, is using AI, machine learning and cloud computing to track the movements and identify monkeys in a war waged on the rampant monkey problem in the capital.

Attacks by aggressive monkeys in India have been reaching epidemic proportions.

In one case, a monkey stole a pile of money from a house, climbed a nearby tree and threw handfuls of cash to grateful citizens below.

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But not all tales of primates behaving badly are quite so amusing.

People across India have been suffering with around 1,000 monkey-bite injuries every day.

The animals reportedly steal food and anything else they can get their hands on – a­nd they can cause devastating damage to property.

The AI solution involves capturing facial recognition data of monkeys in Delhi, work which is currently happening manually, but which will soon be moved to robots.

Currently, the researchers are working with a large dataset of around 4K images of 93 monkeys, which is being used to train the algorithm to recognise individual faces.

As the dataset expands, the team will use cloud computing to process the data.

The researchers are also developing a mobile application that will allow people in Delhi to capture photos of monkeys, tag their location and upload them directly to the project’s database.

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Once uploaded, the researchers and the city’s animal control officers will then be able to identify and locate monkeys that require sterilisation.

The AI creators explained that as towns and cities grow, they often expand into territories which were once the exclusive domain of wild animals.

"For some creatures, the result is displacement, which can lead to population collapse. However, for India’s monkeys, it has opened the door to a life of plenty," they said.

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"Rather than spending their days foraging while keeping watch for predators, they now have an abundance of meal options – leftovers, discarded food and the contents of people’s homes and businesses.

"With easy access to all that nourishment and thus more time on their hands, it’s no surprise India’s urban monkey populations are on the rise."

AI experts claim the tagging of geolocation data allows the team to monitor the movement of groups of monkeys across certain locations which can be useful in detecting population displacement and to reduce conflict between humans and monkeys.