Researchers repurposed an AI model designed for visual identification tasks to detect Bryde’s whale calls contained with seismic data collected in the South China Sea.
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CETI / SETI: The Phonology Of Sperm Whale Coda Vowels
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) communicate using series of clicks known as codas. In previous research, sperm whale codas have been shown to resemble human vowels acoustically.
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SETI/CETI Tricorder Tech: Tapping Into Whale Talk
Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don’t understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It’s not unlike […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Astronomy & Telescopes, Intelligence & Language, Interstellar, Science Fiction, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues, Status Report
SETI Post-Detection Protocols: Progress Towards A New Version
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Committee has long provided guiding principles for responding to a potential detection of a SETI signal.
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How Airports Could Help Aliens Spot Earth
Radar systems used by civilian airports and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilisations, new research shows.
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SETI Tech On Earth: DolphinGemma: How Google AI Is Helping Decode Dolphin Communication
DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they’re saying, too.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Budgets and Policy, Conferences and Meetings, Intelligence & Language, Interstellar, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues, Status Report
Bio-techno-signature Monitoring and Communication Guideposts for Extraterrestrial Life
Abstract — Attendees at the First Penn State SETI Symposium collaborated to develop guideposts for monitoring for and communicating with extraterrestrial life.
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Whale Speech: Approaching An Unknown Communication System By Latent Space Exploration And Causal Inference
This paper proposes a methodology for discovering meaningful properties in data by exploring the latent space of unsupervised deep generative models. We combine manipulation of individual latent variables to extreme […]
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Message In A Bottle – An Update To The Golden Record: 1. Objectives And Key Content Of The Message
In the first part of this series, we delve into the foundational aspects of “Message in a Bottle (MIAB)” (henceforth referred to as MIAB). This study builds upon the legacy […]