Humans aren’t the best at detecting shark activity, so drones are being called in to improve beach safety: commercial UAV company Little Ripper Group is supplying battery-powered drones equipped with a shark detection system that can supposedly identify the creatures at a 90 percent success rate, thanks to artificial intelligence. Australia ranked behind only the US in the number of unprovoked shark encounters with humans last year.



“It’s not about replacing human beings all together, it’s about assisting human beings to get the work done in a better way with more accuracy. That’s what the application is meant for,” said Sharma. Aerial videos of sharks from publicly available sources are used to train the system’s algorithms and differentiate sharks from other marine creatures, surfers, swimmers and boats. It can then tag sharks and other marine life, such as dolphins and whales, in real time.

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