Harnessing ocean currents to boost fuel efficiency of vessels, or tracking whales using sensor data and AI — startups at Paris trade fair Vivatech have been showing off the latest innovations aimed at protecting the environment.
Recently developed AI programs capable of learning from vast datasets have boosted projects trying to understand and predict real-world phenomena, several company founders told AFP.
“We have to use AI because in the natural world there are too many variables” to deal with manually, said Emily Charry Tissier, a biologist and…