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  AI set to improve job security in the marine survey sector Embracing innovative technologies to meet growing demand   By Richard Dowdeswell, Danny Websdale • February 6, 2024 The data was preprocessed by AI, speeding up post-processing. In a March 2023 blog, Microsoft founder, billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates said: “The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the internet and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care and communicate with each other. Entire industries will reorient around it. Businesses will distinguish themselves by how well they use it.”   New workflows that leverage artificial intelligence to achieve the same results as a human being but faster and cheaper will create job losses. From telemarketing to bookkeeping, there really is no stopping the ‘rise of the machines’. Job losses have already happened and there will be many ...

  Research vessel finds four new seamounts in high seas   February 12, 2024 The crew of Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) recently discovered four underwater mountains – the tallest of which exceeds 2.4km in height – during a January transit from Golfito, Costa Rica, to Valparaiso, Chile, as announced by the organization today. These new seamounts, ranging in size from approximately 1,591 metres to 2,681 metres, supplement the crew’s discovery in November 2023 of an underwater mountain twice the height of the Burj Khalifa, measuring 1,600 metres, in international waters off Guatemala.   Schmidt Ocean Institute experts recently uncovered the largest of four seamounts, towering at 2,681 metres tall, spanning 450 square kilometres, and resting 1,150 metres below the surface. This significant find occurred during a mapping transit from Costa Rica to Chile in January 2024. (Image courtesy: Schmidt Ocean Institute) Using multibeam mapping, Schmidt Ocean...