Belinda Smith

The ocean covers more than 70% of the planet, and artificial intelligence is helping us understand it and its inhabitants in ways we never could before.

Wonder what they're saying about us, Robin.

Today on The Science Show, will AI help shape conservation efforts?

That was Dame Bridget Ogilvie, who died in April.

And those words are just as relevant today as they were back in 1997.

just after Bridget was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

She was a renowned parasitologist and former director of the Wellcome Trust in the UK, where she was one of the most influential figures in British research and worldwide.

That's a great episode, Robin.

And this is the Science Show on ABC Radio National.

Now for the topic that's infiltrated pretty much everything, including science, artificial intelligence.

Even Nature had a special out about AI in science, featuring how it's drastically accelerating drug discovery research, but also asking questions like, if AI does all the grunt work of science, are trainee scientists missing out on practical experience?

So what are these AI tools doing and how might they be used in the future?

This was the topic of a panel discussion held at the Australian National Maritime Museum earlier this year called Can AI Talk Whale?

Hosted by museum curator Emily Jativ.

Those panellists again were Matt O'Kine, a man with two mothers, his own, and the other from Mother and Son, Dr Vanessa Perotta, a Eureka Prize winner, and Dr Catherine Ball, a futurist, with Emily Jatoff as host, and she dives deep to film the Titanic and other shipwrecks.

Oh, that sounds fascinating, Robin.

I can't wait to hear it.

I'm Belinda Smith.

And I'm Robin Williams.

Yeah, that's a great question.