“On summer mornings, local kids like to gather at Padaro Beach in California to learn to surf in gentle whitewater waves. A few years ago, the beach also became a popular hangout for juvenile great white sharks.

That led to the launch of SharkEye, an initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory (BOSL), which uses drones to monitor what’s happening beneath the waves.

If a shark is spotted, SharkEye sends a text to the 80-or-so people who have signed up for alerts, including local lifeguards, surf shop owners, and the parents of children who take lessons…

SharkEye – part research program, part community safety tool – is using the video it collects to analyze shark behavior. It’s also feeding its footage into a computer vision machine learning model – a type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that enables computers to glean information from images and videos – to train it to detect great white sharks.”

From CNN.