In response to a recorded humpback ‘contact’ call played into the sea via an underwater speaker, a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled the team’s boat, while responding in a conversational style to the whale ‘greeting signal.’ During the 20-minute exchange, Twain responded to each playback call and matched the interval variations between each signal.
CETI is such a cool project. I wonder how far they’ll be able to get with it.
So, unlike a lot of crap that it’s being used for these days, this seems like it could be a PERFECT sort of thing to throw LLMs at.
LLM?
Large language models. Otherwise (generally) known as machine learning or neural networks
Someone has watched Star Trek IV.
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I’m very happy there’s this kind of serious animal language research. I’m wondering, whether SETI is also interested in parrots or elephants.
