Whale songs, barks, cackles… when artificial intelligence tries to decode and translate animal languages

2024-10-03 20:58:18

“Every language has a structure that artificial intelligence can discover,” assures Aza Raskin, co-founder of Terrestrial species projectone of the main scientific initiatives involved in this ambitious project. Machine learning software, in particular, is excellent at identifying recurring patterns within large data sets on its own. Combined with ethological observations of animal behavior, artificial intelligence would theoretically make it possible to decipher the information contained in barks, cackles and other brays, incomprehensible to the human ear.