Researchers are developing an artificial ielligence system that they hope will soon allow humans to understand the many languages that animals use to communicate with each other. Understanding what animals say can coribute to human knowledge of our world.
The artificial ielligence system is named NatureLM, and it even has the poteial to ideify conversations from species that the system has never encouered before.
NatureLM is trained on a combination of human language, environmeal sounds and other data. The non-profit organization that created it recely received a $17 million gra to coinue its work.
“We’re facing a biodiversity crisis,” said Katie Zakarian, CEO of the Earth Species Project, during a NatureLM demo at the rece Axios AI+ Summit in San Francisco.
He said: “The situation we are in today is caused by disconnection with nature. “We believe that artificial ielligence will lead us to resume this communication and help us decipher animal communication.”
Productive artificial ielligence has proven that its work does not translate; But one problem with animal language translation is that instead of moving between two known languages, we have a limited understanding of how animals and their language communicate.
The Earth Species project, from which NatureLM’s artificial ielligence system emerged, is trying to use artificial ielligence to help address the planet’s concerns.
Last week, Microsoft provided details of the SPARROW project; An artificial ielligence system designed to measure biodiversity in some of the most remote places on Earth.
Given that human progress in the fight against climate change is likely to fall short of the desired goals, many are looking to come up with alternative approaches to artificial ielligence.
While artificial ielligence shows promise in helping to better understand nature, the huge energy demand is straining those electrical systems and forcing tech companies to delay or change their plans to operate in a carbon-free way.
