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Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview
FromFT Tech Tonic
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
The Canadian scientist and author Karen Bakker, who died unexpectedly in August this year, was a leading voice in the bioacoustic research community. Her 2022 book, The Sounds of Life, explained how it might one day be possible to create a kind of Google Translate for animals and was the inspiration behind this Tech Tonic series. This episode contains the full interview that we recorded with her. We are posting it as a tribute to her remarkable work. Free links:Google Translate for the zoo? How humans might talk to animalsKaren Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023How generative AI really worksCredits: Elephant bee rumble from Lucy King Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Sep 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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