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 […]
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WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans And Blow Nubble “Smoke” Rings
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker […]
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An Exploratory Framework for Future SETI Applications: Detecting Generative Reactivity via Language Models
We present an exploratory framework to test whether noise-like input can induce structured responses in language models.
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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.
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Whale Song Has Structure Similar To Human Language
Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also […]
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Listening To A Non-human Intelligence Talk: Sperm Whale Vocalisations
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are highly social mammals that communicate using sequences of clicks called codas. While a subset of codas have been shown to encode information about caller identity, […]
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Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter With Humpback Whales Reveals Potential For Nonhuman Intelligence communication
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence.
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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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New Research Hub Considers Response To Life Beyond Earth
What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at the University of St Andrews will coordinate global expertise to […]
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Workshop Ponders Challenges of Communicating Across the Cosmos
When astronomers conducting the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) find other cultures in the universe, could we understand their messages?