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Working with Dominica Fisheries and DominicaStateCollege early on to create experiential learning opportunities on the water through our research has grown dramatically into the amazing Project CETI Fellowships in collaboration with National Geographic Society! Meet the first team of Fellows!

Did you know baby dolphins have whiskers? This baby was on its second day of life when we saw it yesterday! The whiskers (on top of the rostrum) will fall out in a couple days, but until then they help sense things in the environment while they’re still learning to be a dolphin.

Claudia Geib @cm_geib writes, "The more sperm whale clans overlap territorially with each other, they found, the more distinct their identity codas appear to be." Click for this and more from Ocean. bit.ly/3EYD91u

Preserving animal cultures as a conservation strategy reported by Carolyn Beeler for @theworld in connection with UN Biodiversity #COP15 theworld.org/media/2022-12-…

Humans blast the oceans with noise from shipping, oil exploration and military operations. For dolphins living in a world of sound, that might be making it harder to work together. Mine in NYT Science & thanks Pernille M Sørensen, Shane Gero @[email protected] for talking with me nytimes.com/2023/01/12/sci…

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Uncovering the unknowns in sperm whale communication🐳 using deep learning We introduce a novel interpretability technique (CDEV) that combines generative deep models and causal inference methods. Our model discovers meaningful properties, both novel and previously hypothesized

How do we approach an unknown communication system? We train GANs that learn to imitate whale vocalizations and encode information into those vocalizations. Using CDEV (causal disentanglement with extreme values), we can infer which properties the model encodes as meaningful.

Our network learns properties considered meaningful by existing research, such as: -Number of clicks -ICI timing The network also uncovers new acoustic properties that may be meaningful but haven't been hypothesized as such before: -Spectral mean -Spectral regularity

tl;dr: Acoustic properties such as spectral mean or spectral regularity might be informative in sperm whale communication system Read our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2303.10931 With amazing student Andrej Leban Andrej Leban Berkeley Speech & Computation and Shane Gero @[email protected] Project CETI

Shane Gero @[email protected] shares what he has learned from the thousands of hours he has spent in the company of sperm whales, including how similar their lives are to our own and how their cultures define their identity, just as ours do. National Geographic Society The Dominica Sperm Whale Project #scicomm bit.ly/40ugG4Q

Until fairly recently, the dominant view among scientists was that non-human animals didn’t manifest real intelligence or live in dynamic cultures. Read how Carl Safina and Shane Gero @[email protected] are challenging this theory in a conversation with journalist Kate Golden 🌈 bit.ly/42kA31l

The extraordinary Elizabeth Kolbert follows my pal Shane Gero @[email protected] and his family of sperm whales around the Caribbean learning about efforts to use AI/machine learning to communicate w/whales. And it’s a fantastic story. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

This was a truly humbling experience and I am overwhelmed in sharing this moment with Unit A. I've realized I have spent half my life learning from the sperm whales off Dominica and to know these whales is an honor for which I am deeply grateful. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

The same technology that is powering ChatGPT could allow us to reach into the non-human world, and begin to understand — even speak — animal languages, or so researchers hope. Here’s how: on.ft.com/4aYsmU5

I had a lot of fun writing this piece and speaking to the people trying to understand what whales, elephants and bats are saying. With Sam Learner Sam Joiner Irene de la Torre Arenas 👉 ft.com/ai-animals

This article follows on from this Tech Tonic podcast with John Thornhill and Manuela Saragosa🌍 also on bluesky and threads - which I recommend listening to if you want to hear more about what it’s like hanging out in the ocean watching sperm whale calves play open.spotify.com/episode/1xijkI…

An updated version of the AI for whale communication paper is now available: arxiv.org/abs/2303.10931…