A new project uses AI toimprove the identification and measurement of fish speciesin Africas Nile Basin.
The software can help scientists understand fish population density more quickly than human observers.
Its part of a larger effort to harness AI to improve sustainability across a wide range of industries.
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TheUN estimatesone-third of all fish stocks are now overfished and are no longer sustainable.
Theres alsoRestor.eco, an open data restoration platform hosted on Google Earth.
Essentially, the program can map out land to predict where trees can naturally grow.
BlueConduit
Dunckelman said that Google has found that programs achieve their goals faster with AI.
He noted the case ofBlueConduit, an organization that emerged out of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.
AI is not a silver bullet to all of our problems.
AI for sustainability is still in its infancy, too, Dunckelman acknowledged.
The field still lacks sufficient data sets and models needed to drive progress.
“All we have is what the emitters themselves say they’re doing, which is imperfect.”
