<
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/07/1092127/the-way-whales-communicate-is-closer-to-human-language-than-we-realized/>
"Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. They possess the biggest brain of any
species, six times larger than a human’s, which scientists believe may have
evolved to support intelligent, rational behavior. They’re highly social,
capable of making decisions as a group, and they exhibit complex foraging
behavior.
But there’s also a lot we don’t know about them, including what they may be
trying to say to one another when they communicate using a system of short
bursts of clicks, known as codas. Now, new research published in
Nature
Communications today suggests that sperm whales’ communication is actually
much more expressive and complicated than was previously thought.
A team of researchers led by Pratyusha Sharma at MIT’s Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) working with Project CETI, a nonprofit
focused on using AI to understand whales, used statistical models to analyze
whale codas and managed to identify a structure to their language that’s
similar to features of the complex vocalizations humans use. Their findings
represent a tool future research could use to decipher not just the structure
but the actual meaning of whale sounds."
Via
Fix the News:
<
https://fixthenews.com/good-news-ebola-vaccines-crime-brazil-overfishing-us/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
