Google’s AI makes communication with dolphins possible

By Hannah Pérez

Google has presented Dolphingemma, its new AI model designed to decipher the vocalizations of the dolphins. An example of how AI is helping to transcend the barriers of conversation between species.

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• Dolphingemma: Google’s new AI model to talk to dolphins.
• The system is designed to decipher the vocalizations of the dolphins and generate conversation.
• Researchers in the Atlantic, who fed AI with videos and audios, have begun to use it.
• AI technology could help break the connection borders between species.

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Interest communication could be everyday life in the future. In fact, a new technological development could make this unexpected advance for humanity as close as around the corner.

Humans and dolphins have been friends for years, with numerous stories of people, starting close links with these marine specimens. Those who share closely with these mammals, know more than anyone who has a great talent of understanding, being able to follow instructions, learn tricks and even recognize themselves in their reflection.

Being the most sociable cetaceans in the ocean, dolphins communicate through a variety of sounds such as whistles, clicks and sound pulses. They also use body movements, such as jumping and beating in the water, to manifest their emotions.

Although we observe their gestures with fascination, its language remains for us a great mystery.

But this is something that could be about to change, now the artificial intelligence division (AI) of Google He is finding ways to decipher the language of the dolphins to break the until now unilaterality of the conversation.

Google Develop a Delfín language model

Google Deepmind It has revealed an AI model that is expected to help decipher the vocalizations of dolphins, understanding and even opening a communication channel between humans and the marine species.

Called Dolphingemmathe AI ​​model was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a non -profit organization that studies the stained dolphins from the Atlantic and their behaviors, according to Tech crunch.

A Bahamas WDP -headquarters capsule has been collecting audio, video and registering the behavior of dolphins since 1985, as the organization researchers have observed, documenting each whistle and gesture, and trying to rebuild what all this means. This data treasure now feeds Dolphingemma.

Google’s Dolphin Language Model is based on the company’s open gemma family. As explained Radar tech, Dolphingemma Take dolphins sounds as an entrance, processes them using audio tokenizers as Soundstream And predict what vocalization could come later. It is something like a self -precautionary function, but for dolphins.

The artificial intelligence -based system is also able to generate sound sequences “similar to those of dolphins”, according to reports, which could in the future allow people to speak with a dolphin from their own cell phone. Google He said the model is already efficient enough to function on smartphones.

AI to talk to other animal species

WDP researchers are already implementing Dolphingemma In the field while they work simultaneously with Georgia Tech In a system called chat (abbreviation of Cetacean Hearing Augmentation Telemetry), which is essentially a bidirectional communication system for humans and dolphins, reports Radar tech.

Chat allows researchers to assign synthetic whistles to objects, including marine pastures and other dolphins, and then wait to see if the dolphins imitate those sounds to request them. It is like inventing a language shared with submarine sounds and microphones.

While efforts in communication between humans and other species are not new, these developments show how AI technology could help the world break the barriers of our connection with the animal world.

Dolphins are not the only animals with which humans have been experiencing the potential of AI to communicate. According to the aforementioned newspaper, another group of scientists developed an AI algorithm to decod the emotions of pigs based on their grunts, shrieks and tobacco to help farmers understand their emotional and physical health.

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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