There are many ways we could benefit from AI while we are underwater enjoying our next liveaboard scuba dive. During almost every liveaboard dive adventure, at some point we see a critter or coral that we’ve seen before but can’t recall the name, or maybe we’ve never looked it up, or maybe it’s a completely new species to us—some wonderful, mysterious creature, about which we know nothing.
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