Alphabet’s AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives
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Alphabet's AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives
The Tidal project aims to make fish farming more environmentally-friendly
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is bringing AI under the sea to help fish farmers develop more sustainable practices.
The project, dubbed Tidal, uses underwater cameras connected to computer vision software to analyze fish behaviors that the human eye can't see.
In a blog post, Tidal general manager Neil Davé said the system could monitor thousands of individual fish habits to understand their eating patterns and movements. It will also collect information on their environment, such as temperatures and oxygen levels.
Farmers can use the insights to keep their fish healthy, optimize their feeding, and reduce waste.
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"Really what we are hoping to do is provide these tools to farmers so that they can move their operations towards more sustainability," Davé told The Financial Ti