Shipping forecast: Cloudy with a chance of machine learning - CBR

Rolls-Royce and Google on the same boat with navigating a path towards an AI driven autonomous future. Google is shipping out its Cloud Machine Learning Engine to Rolls-Royce to help make autonomous ships a reality. The hope is that the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine will be able to train Rolls-Royce's intelligent awareness systems, an AI-based classification system for detecting, identifying, and tracking the objects that a vessel could come across at sea. Signed at the Google Cloud Summit in Sweden, the agreement will help the company to create bespoke machine learning models that'll be able to uncover valuable insights from data sets that are created by Rolls-Royce. Karno Tenovuo, Rolls-Royce, SVP Ship Intelligence said: "While intelligent awareness systems will help to facilitate an autonomous future, they can benefit maritime businesses right now making vessels and their crews safer and more efficient. By working with Google Cloud we can make these systems better faster, saving lives."