Daniel and the Sea of Sound | SEARCH ON Ep. 4

When a young music lover follows the call of whales, he finds his own path. Google’s docuseries ‘Search On’ tells the stories of people on a quest for better answers and the magic that happens at the intersection of tech and humanity. Watch the series: http://yt.be/SearchOn
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Daniel DeLeon never imagined he would use machine learning to study endangered whales. But a life-long passion for music and fascination with the science of sound led him to an internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, where he used TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning tool, to make breakthroughs identifying endangered whale calls.

Director: Gandja Monteiro
Cinematographer: Carolina Costa
Editors: Garin Glassy, David Goldstein
Producers: Chris Lopez, Jon Campbell
Production company: Gloria Content
Google Brand Studio
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Go deeper into this episode of Search On and learn more about Daniel’s remarkable journey at http://g.co/soundwaves and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute at https://www.mbari.org/