Shark infested waters make it difficult for human beings to enjoy the beach experience. Sharks have attacked teenagers this year on beaches along California and New York. The great white sharks are creeping closer and closer to the shores and making it dangerous for swimmers in the oceans. Given that they are one of the biggest and most dangerous predators in the ocean, it makes sense that humans stay away from them.

In Australia a 16 year old has come up with an app for the Smartphone that uses artificial intelligence to analyse 13 factors  that affect shark behavior. The kid from New South Wales has come up with the app to calculate the odds of being  attacked by a shark. A search and rescue group in Australia known as the Ripper Group has come up with a program that uses a drone as it scans for sharks in the ocean. These drones are among the best drones for beginners, thus they can be used by even an amateur who has the basic knowledge of its working as not all can be expert drone controllers. If seen the animal’s movements and swimming patterns are analysed.

Should they be closing in on human bathers in the ocean, the program scrambles an alert to life guards as well as drops inflatable devices to the swimmers in immediate danger. The system may not be fool proof but it does have an advantage of an early warning system compared to other science projects.

The human mind has an incredible capacity to grasp data. Facial recognition software being developed by various researchers is showing humans just how difficult it is to get a computer to do what human beings tend to do naturally. Think of the sheer number of people you are able to simply take one look at and correctly place an identity on them.

For the computer to do the same thing, it takes yards and yards or written code. While early humans did not have quite the same population to go through in terms of identification, they did need to be able to make out the difference between potentially harmful and useful plants and animals.

Today a human being can be blasted with an astonishing number of faces from real life and social media. The news helps us see more people than we would in our daily lives. Apparently it is possible for a human being to process many thousands of faces instantly, unlike a computer that is being programmed to do the same task.

Recent scientific studies at the University of York had scientists proclaiming that humans can recall at least five thousand faces in their lifetime. No small feat, especially when compared to a computer’s nascent abilities in the same field.