Google has created an AI model that is diving into dolphin clicks, whistles and pulsations, taking scientists closer than ever to decipher the code of one of the most sophisticated forms of communication in the animal kingdom.
So -called DolphinGemmao new AI system It is a large language model, dolphin -friendly, developed by Google in collaboration with researchers from Georgia Tech and Wild Dophin Project.
Dolphins are very intelligent animals and talkatives that use a variety of high frequency sounds to court companions, find friends, coordinate behaviors and maintain the harmony of the group.
According to, over the years, WDP has collected a huge amount of data on the Vocalizations of Dolphins and began to identify patterns such ascharacteristic ssobios that help mothers and pups to meet, the “Continuous impulse” during the fights and the “Tinfidos” Quick Click used in court or persecution of sharks.
With the help of AI, they want deepen the data and discover the standards and rules that can reveal what dolphins are really saying.
Initially, OMOdelo is being trained in the Atlantic dolphinbut the team expects to apply the discoveries to other species of cetaceans, such as the Roaz-Corvinas or dolphin.
Using advanced audio technology, the model gets turn the dolphin sounds into a format that AI can analyzefacilitating the detection of patterns and meanings.
Despite the power of the Dolphinggemma model, it is sufficiently efficient to function directly in smartphones used by researchers on the ground.
Dolphingemma processes this data using a large language model, a type of automatic learning model that is especially suitable for this type of work because it was designed to find patterns in complex sequenceswhether it is texts written by humans or dolphin vocalizations.
As ChatgPT makes for human language, Dolphinggemma is trained for Recognize recurring patterns, combinations of sounds and contextual tracks in dolphin vocalizationswhich allows researchers to go beyond simple sound cataloging and understand how these sounds can work in a structured and significant way, as a language.
One of the main objectives of WDP investigation is Understand how dolphins communicate and interact with each other in nature. By studying them in your habitat Natural underwater, researchers can associate specific sounds with real -time behaviors, which is not possible on the surface.
Ultimately, the Project expects to explore the potential for bidirectional interaction between humans and dolphins using technology. In other words, Talk to the dolphins.
However, there will be many obstacles to overcome before this goal is achieved. On the one hand, it is known that the Dolphins from different regions have different vocalizationswhich suggests that they can communicate using different “accents” or even other languages. It is not even known if two populations of different parts of the ocean would understand each other.
However, with tools like Dolphingemma, the CIentists are starting to unravel the mysteries of dolphin communication and to throw the foundations for what may once become a real conversation between the species.
Teresa Oliveira Campos, Zap //
