Smart Talks with IBM - The Mayflower Autonomous Ship: AI and Automation at Sea
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The world’s first autonomous vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean is signaling a new era in maritime technology. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell takes on this topic with Lauren Ober, host of The Loudest Girl in the World, and guests Brett Phaneuf and Don Scott, the engineers behind the Mayflower Autonomous Ship project. The two explain how automation and AI allowed them to reimagine the design and use of a ship at sea and their implications beyond maritime navigation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:12.0 | This season of smart talks with IBM is all about new creators, the developers, data scientists, |
| 0:17.8 | CTOs, and other visionaries creatively applying technology in business to drive change. |
| 0:23.9 | They use their knowledge and creativity to develop better ways of working, no matter the industry. |
| 0:29.4 | Open hosts from your favorite Pushkin Industries podcasts as they use their expertise to deepen |
| 0:34.2 | these conversations. |
| 0:35.7 | And of course Malcolm Gladwell will guide you through the season as your host and provide |
| 0:39.6 | his thoughts and analysis along the way. |
| 0:42.4 | Look out for new episodes of smart talks with IBM on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 0:47.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts, and learn more at IBM.com slash smart talks. |
| 0:55.5 | Hello, hello, welcome to smart talks with IBM. |
| 0:58.3 | A podcast from Pushkin Industries, iHeartRadio, and IBM, I'm Malcolm Gladwell. |
| 1:04.4 | This season we're talking to new creators, the developers, data scientists, CTOs, and |
| 1:10.4 | other visionaries who are creatively applying technology and business to drive change. |
| 1:16.0 | Channeling their knowledge and expertise, they're developing more creative and effective |
| 1:20.0 | solutions, no matter the industry. |
| 1:23.0 | Our guests today are Brett Fanoff and Don Scott. |
| 1:26.7 | Brett and Don are responsible for creating the world's first unmanned fully autonomous |
| 1:31.7 | ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, a research vessel they've dubbed the Mayflower 400. |
| 1:39.1 | Brett is a director of the Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project, and Don is the CTO of Marine AI. |
| 1:47.2 | On June 30th, 2022, the Mayflower 400 successfully completed its voyage from Plymouth, UK to Plymouth |
| 1:55.8 | Massachusetts. |
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