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An unlikely team of technologists and biologists try to decode whale communication using machine learning. The premise: if we can understand non-human intelligence, we might learn to understand the invisible forces shaping all communication.
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Machine learning reveals patterns in communication that humans cannot detect
Miller: AI and machine learning are discovering structure in whale songs, bird calls, and other animal communications that human researchers missed for decades. The patterns suggest far more complex 'language' than previously assumed.•
Non-human intelligence challenges anthropocentric assumptions about consciousness and communication
Miller: the attempt to decode whale communication reveals how narrowly we define 'intelligence' and 'language.' Whale brains are larger and more complexly folded than human brains, and their communication may encode information we can't yet comprehend.Was this useful?