Author: Leo Collis
The Norwegian fishing industry hopes that artificial intelligence will help protect a native salmon species from an invasive one. Huawei and Simula Consulting have developed a method that can trap humpback salmon, or pink salmon, in river systems and allow native Atlantic salmon to continue swimming to breeding grounds. The technology relies on identification software to separate the two species. An AI model was fed thousands of images of different river-based animals, and it was capable of telling the difference between two types of salmon. Fish swim in an underwater cage in a river, and the AI system separates the…