Province launches new whale watching website

The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation launched a new website called Hello Humpback. The website helps whale watching enthusiasts identify and learn more about whales seen during their travels.

Whale tail photos can be uploaded to the Hello Humpback website and, from there, image recognition software analyzes the photo and searches for a match in a database powered by Happywhale, an organization committed to caring for marine environments through conservation and education.

A story is then presented, written by a custom generative artificial intelligence model, using the whale’s sighting history data.