Beyond its Gemini models, powered by the generative AI, Google is interested in increasingly varied projects. As such, the Californian tech giant has started to decipher communications between dolphins. For this, the firm announces a collaboration with a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology; The project is part of the activities of the NGO Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) which works to study the behavior of these cetaceans.
Artificial intelligence in the face of the intelligence of the seas
Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. They are able to act as a team and to convey skills by observation of peers (social learning), but above all, dolphins communicate with each other by their own language. Thanks to technological progression and in particular that of artificial intelligence, Google develops an AI model aimed at decoding the communication of dolphins. In collaboration with WDP which analyzes and records the behavior of certain Atlantic cetaceans since 1985, Google has just presented its new model of AI: Dolphingemma. If the researchers have already been able to associate certain sound emissions with certain behaviors within the benches of Delphinidae, Dolphingemma should make it possible to determine whether these signals reach a level of language composed of words, or not. If this is the case, the objective of Dolphingemma would be to be able to communicate with the dolphins.
Extend the project to other animal species
Google uses its Soundstream technology which allows the sounds emitted by dolphins to code in order to incorporate them into the training of the model. The Mountain View firm explains that it has recovered all the archives of the records made by the NGO Wild Dolphin Project. Based on a large number of samples, Dolphingemma should be able to listen to a sound at the start, then predict the “message” that succeeds it and model it acoustically. However, the recordings used for Dolphingemma training, however, relate to a specific species: Atlantic spotted dolphins. Google specifies that if its model were to work, it should be possible to replicate the experience on other species of cetaceans.
Beyond its Gemini models, powered by the generative AI, Google is interested in increasingly varied projects. As such, the Californian tech giant has started to decipher communications between dolphins. For this, the firm announces a collaboration with a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology; The project is part of the activities of the NGO Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) which works to study the behavior of these cetaceans.
Artificial intelligence in the face of the intelligence of the seas
Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. They are able to act as a team and to convey skills by observation of peers (social learning), but above all, dolphins communicate with each other by their own language. Thanks to technological progression and in particular that of artificial intelligence, Google develops an AI model aimed at decoding the communication of dolphins. In collaboration with WDP which analyzes and records the behavior of certain Atlantic cetaceans since 1985, Google has just presented its new model of AI: Dolphingemma. If the researchers have already been able to associate certain sound emissions with certain behaviors within the benches of Delphinidae, Dolphingemma should make it possible to determine whether these signals reach a level of language composed of words, or not. If this is the case, the objective of Dolphingemma would be to be able to communicate with the dolphins.
Extend the project to other animal species
Google uses its Soundstream technology which allows the sounds emitted by dolphins to code in order to incorporate them into the training of the model. The Mountain View firm explains that it has recovered all the archives of the records made by the NGO Wild Dolphin Project. Based on a large number of samples, Dolphingemma should be able to listen to a sound at the start, then predict the “message” that succeeds it and model it acoustically. However, the recordings used for Dolphingemma training, however, relate to a specific species: Atlantic spotted dolphins. Google specifies that if its model were to work, it should be possible to replicate the experience on other species of cetaceans.
