The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
December 22nd, 2024
Via Wired, a look at how – with big cash prizes at stake and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us? In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has […]
Read More »AI: Changing The Way We Study Bird Migration
December 19th, 2024
Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how – after decades of frustration – machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists: A small songbird soars above Ithaca, New York, on a September night. He is one of 4 billion birds, a great annual river of feathered migration across North America. […]
Read More »Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from Forest Fires to Threatened Species
December 6th, 2024
Via Wired, a report on how the internet of things turned every device in your house into a smart something. Now it’s coming for nature—to track forest fires and tree health or to listen out for threatened animals. You are in a lush forest. Sunlight filters through the bright green canopy, casting dappled shadows on the […]
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