GeekWire: An AI agent that dives into ocean data  “Skylight, the free ocean-monitoring platform built by Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), launched an AI agent that gives maritime analysts answers to plain-language questions about what’s happening across the world’s oceans, from illegal fishing to vessels that have gone dark. The agent, dubbed Shippy, runs on Skylight’s live vessel-tracking and satellite data, with every answer linking back to the underlying records so analysts can verify and reproduce it. Skylight is one of a group of environmental projects that moved in 2021 to Ai2 from Vulcan Inc., now known as Vale Group, the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company. Researchers at Skylight have spent years building tools to spot illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which it says accounts for billions of dollars in losses each year and hits developing countries that depend on their fisheries the hardest. The platform is free, and Skylight says it is used by more than 300 organizations across about 70 countries. It combines free satellite data with commercial imagery and vessel-tracking feeds to flag suspicious behavior, such as a ship going dark or two vessels meeting at sea to transfer catch. Ai2 has open-sourced the computer-vision models behind the project…’