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IMAGE: The Ask Knut App has been developed using thousands of different kinds of ice photographs. The image shows what the app sees compared to what humans see. view more
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If you ve watched Netflix, shopped online, or run your robot vacuum cleaner, you ve interacted with artificial intelligence, AI. AI is what allows computers to comb through an enormous amount of data to detect patterns or solve problems. The European Union says AI is set to be a defining future technology.
And yet, as much as AI is already interwoven into our everyday lives, there s one area of the globe where AI and its applications are in their infancy, says Ekaterina Kim, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology s (NTNU) Department of Marine Technology. That area is the Arctic, an area where she has specialized in studying sea ice, among other topics.