Four hundred years after the Mayflower ship took the first Pilgrims to the New World, another vessel will repeat the voyage — only this time there will be no human captain or crew on-board. Instead, the boat will be steered by an AI captain. The AI skipper uses cameras, edge computing, and AI to identify and avoid any ships, buoys, and other dangers lurking in the water. The system is the latest addition to the Mayflower Autonomous Ship being developed by IBM and marine research organization Promare. To teach it how to sail, the team spent two years training the…
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