MIT Sea Grant Students Ride the AI Wave to Boost Aquaculture!
Well, well, well, what do we have here? A fishy business indeed! The smart cookies, or should we say smart squids over at MIT Sea Grant, are using the awesome powers of Artificial Intelligence to help “make America bait again”. Taking the saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea” to the digital world, these students are using machine learning to aid local aquaculture hatcheries.
Key Points of the Story:
- Lending a machine ‘hand’ to Mother Nature, the MIT Sea Grant students have applied AI to support local aquaculture hatcheries. This might be the first time a fish has ever thanked a robot.
- These smart squids aren’t the students we all used to copy homework off of after schools. They pitched their machine learning algorithms and computer vision technologies to improve the process of fish and shellfish farming – genuinely making “perfect sense” to these automated beings!
- The AI system’s main goal is to provide potential quota for oyster and clam harvests. Or in human terms? Making sure we have enough clam chowder and oyster bisque to last us the winter!
- MIT’s magical AI can process millions of images of baby clams and oysters (soo cute) to classify them. This beats having to do it the “old school” way involving actual humans, right?
- Lastly, hold your clam crackers, people! This AI system can also predict the survival and growth rates of these shelled munchkins. That’s like predicting who will win the Super Bowl in 2032 (I’m rooting for the Dolphins!).
Final Thoughts:
In a world where tech is being used in every field imaginable, it’s refreshing (and kind of mind-blowing) to see that it’s now being applied to aquaculture. So hats off to our MIT Sea Grant students for making this splash with machine learning. Their efforts have gone to show that Artificial Intelligence isn’t only for tech junkies or doomsday cynics predicting the rise of robot overlords- it’s also for those who simply love knowing there’s enough clam chowder to get through a grim, hungry winter. Now, all that’s left is for us to wait and see if the fish will eventually start doing the ‘robot’ dance!
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://news.mit.edu/2024/advancing-technology-aquaculture-0418
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