Using Machine Learning to Help Protect the Great Barrier Reef in Partnership with Australia’s CSIRO by Megha Malpani and Ard Oerlemans via @TensorFlow

In spite of the costs, machine learning has been successfully used in a variety of conservation projects around the world. Here's an inside look at how the Great Barrier Reef Foundation leveraged the latest technologies to survey, monitor and map reefs at scale.

This is a great example of something good to come out of machine learning which generally gets so much bad press about it taking over jobs.