Want to talk to dolphins? The researchers won the amount of $ 100,000, the Amnesty International Prize, studying their whistle

If any dolphin reads this: Hello!

A team of scientists studying a society of dolphins in Florida Granted The first COLLER DOLETLE CHALLENGE first prize for $ 100,000, prepared Prize research in communications algorithms between species.

The United States -based team, led by Lilla Sayigh from Woods Foundation OceangamI found that the type of whistle used by dolphins is used as a warning. Another whistle is used by dolphins to respond to unexpected or unfamiliar situations. The non -invasive hydrovones team used the research, which provides evidence that dolphins may use zeros such as words, and participate with multiple members of their societies.

Capture sounds is just the beginning. Researchers will use artificial intelligence to continue deciphering the shores to try to find more styles.

“The main thing that prevents us from breaking the animal communications blog is the lack of data. Think about the word trillion of words to train a large language model like Chatgpt. We have nothing like this for other animals,” said Jonathan Persh, a professor at the London School of Economics and Politics and one of the referees for the award.

“This is the reason that we need programs such as the Sarasota Dolphin research program, which built an unusual library of the dolphin whistle for 40 years. The cumulative result of all this work is that Lla says that it can now use deep learning to analyze the yellows, and perhaps, in one day, break the code.”

The award was part of the ceremony honoring the work of four teams from all over the world. In addition to the Dolphin project, researchers have studied ways to communicate with Nightingales, Marmoset Monkeys and Cittlefish.

The challenge is the cooperation between the Jeremy Koller Foundation and the University of Tel Aviv. Approval For the next year Open in August.

Dolphins are just the beginning

Searching for animals and trying to learn the secrets of their contact is not the new thing; But artificial intelligence accelerates the creation of larger data and tail groups.

Kate Zakari, CEO and co -founder of Earth Types ProjectIt is a California -based non -profit organization that also breaks down language barriers with the animal world.

“Just as artificial intelligence revolutionized the fields of medicine and materials science, we see a similar opportunity to provide these developments to study animal communications and enable researchers in this field with completely new capabilities,” Zakarian said.

Zakharian applauded and winning the Sayigh team and said that it would help provide broader recognition of the study of non -human animal communications. It can also bring more attention to the ways that Amnesty International can change the nature of this type of research.
“The artificial intelligence systems are not only faster – they allow completely new types of investigation,” she said. “We move from deciphering isolated signals to exploring communication as a rich, dynamic and structure-a very big task for our human brains, but it is possible for artificial intelligence models widely.”

Earth species recently released a large open -source audio language model for analyzing animal sounds Natulm-Audio. Zakarian said that the organization is currently working with biologists and ethics to study species, including the funeral, orchlasia, spider jumping, etc., and plans to launch some of the results it reached later this year.