Predictions about the future of artificial intelligence range from fears it will lead to human extinction, to hopes it will be a transformative technology that positively changes lives forever.
Tony Chen, the co-founder and CEO of aquaculture data analytics firm Manolin said he believes the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Chen said he isn't sure where exactly in the middle that truth lies, but he does know one thing for certain: Many industries, especially seafood, could be doing more to leverage this technology.
Chen, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate with a degree in computer science, started Manolin in 2018 with his roommate John Costantino after working with oyster farmers in the Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of Virginia. Early on in the company's start Chen and Costantino realized what a little bit of predictive modeling could do for seafood.
“We saw what the power of data could do for the industry,” Chen said during the 2025 Global Seafood Market Conference in Palm Desert, California, U.S.A., on 23 January.
Chen and Costantino soon moved on to working with …
