Unexplainable Can we talk to animals?
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Aug 16, 2023 Scientists discuss the potential use of AI to translate animal communication and the challenges in understanding their sounds. The podcast explores the history of animal sound research, the possibility of language translation using AI, and the ethical implications and potential dangers of communicating with animals. It also delves into the risks and rewards of cross-species communication.
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Whale Songs Save Species
- Roger Payne and his wife released whale songs recorded by Navy scientists as a public album.
- Their work helped shift public opinion and saved many whale species from extinction.
AI Unlocks Hidden Animal Sounds
- Most animal sounds are outside human hearing ranges, either ultrasonic or infrasonic.
- AI enables large-scale analysis of this hyperabundant acoustic data to advance understanding.
Mapping Languages with AI Shapes
- AI can create geometric "shapes" of languages where semantic relationships become spatial ones.
- This opens possibilities to map animal communication shapes to human meaning for partial translation.