Alphabet unveils AI camera system that monitors fish populations with the goal of feeding humanity

Google's parent company, Alphabet, wants to throw the power of its AI behind a mission to monitor sea life around the ocean. According to a blog post, a project called Tidal - part of Alphabet's'X' division that develops'moonshot' projects - is creating a computer vision system that uses AI to monitor thousands of fish. The goal, says the company, is to help glean understanding of how over-fishing and other human impacts of fish populations affect sea life across the globe. With that information, Alphabet hopes that people will not just understand what happens beneath the ocean's surface, but help fix the problems that plague ocean life and habitats. 'One of the biggest barriers to protecting the ocean -- and our future -- is that we don't know much about what's going on under the water.