Scientists Just Put $17 Million Toward Teaching AI to Translate Animal Languages
The Earth Species Project is using machine learning to map the calls of whales, crows and zebras — and build the first 'dictionaries' of animal communication.
The Earth Species Project has raised $17 million to accelerate an audacious goal: using AI to decode how animals talk to each other. Its machine-learning models comb through enormous libraries of recordings, mapping patterns in the vocalizations of whales, crows and zebras.
The aim is to build 'basic dictionaries' of animal languages — a breakthrough that researchers believe could transform conservation by letting us finally understand what the animals around us are trying to say.