Amazon’s top technology officer told the United Nations this week that people will need to eat more fish and less beef if they want to protect the environment, and said artificial intelligence is a tool that is already helping to make that happen.
Dr. Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon, told the “AI for Good” global summit in Geneva this week that AI is helping rice farmers and other food producers around the world be much more efficient. However, he said AI will also play an important role in making sure food comes at a lower cost to the environment.
In his remarks to the conference on July 6, Vogels showed a graphic that said it takes seven times more feed to produce a given amount of protein from a cattle farm compared to a fish farm. He said that means people need to move away from eating beef.
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Dr. Werner Vogels said AI is already being used to make fish farms more effective and make it easier for fish to replace beef. (Fox News/Screenshot)
However, he said AI is already helping to solve that problem. Vogels said companies like Aquabyte are using AI and machine learning to gather data on fish in order to quickly detect the presence of disease and other problems that hurt yield.
“Their mission is to improve fish farming techniques,” he said. “They build this very unique camera… to identify the individual fish, to identify their growth, to identify potential diseases.”
Dr. Werner Vogels said ocean fishing is also not environmentally friendly, which is why AI-monitored fish farms are needed. (Fox News/Screenshot)
“This is an extremely damaging industry,” he said at the U.N. meeting. “Greenpeace reports that fishing nets account for about 86% of the large plastic waste, which is caught in the ‘great Pacific garbage patch,’ which is sitting in the Pacific Ocean which is three times the size of France.”
“It’s extremely damaging – current fishing approaches – to the environment,” he said. “So fish farming is a much better-controlled environment to grow fish.”
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