AI is learning to recognize animal sounds, but a 'dolphin translator' is still a long way off
Earth Species Project, Google DeepMind, and Project CETI are applying machine learning to analyze the vocalizations of frogs, birds, dolphins, and sperm whales. The models can already recognize and classify sounds, but understanding their meaning and translating it into human language remain unsolved problems, and the technologies themselves raise ethical questions.
Aziz Karimov