Joyce Poole and Michael Pardo recently A groundbreaking study has revealed On elephant communication: Using a machine learning model, they were able to show strong evidence that African savannah elephants have unique names for each other. The statistical model they used – known as a random forest model – is nothing new or fancy. It has been around for 20 years. But one example of how animal communication researchers are using machine learning to decode animal calls they can’t do through observation alone.
This video covers some other ways that machine learning is addressing the limits of human observation in animal communication research. And it illustrates a wild plan for what could be next: deep learning models that could facilitate interspecies communication.
