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Google parent Alphabet invents fish recognition system

The advanced research lab at Google’s parent company Alphabet, is taking aim at an unlikely new target for its technologies: fish.  In an attempt to boost the use of fish farms, and reduce the world’s consumption of wild fish and meat, Alphabet’s X Development has invented a system that will eventually recognize and monitor every individual fish in farms that hold hundreds of thousands.  The three-year-old project, dubbed Tidal, is working with farms in Europe and Asia. It pairs underwater cameras with AI techniques such as computer vision to track species including salmon and yellowtail…

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