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Unexplainable

Can we talk to animals?

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Two scientists explain how AI might help us translate animal communication, and what we might learn from their squawks, chirps, songs, and chatter. This episode was recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:19.3

It's unexplainable, I know I'm hasten fouled.

1:23.3

A couple months ago, I went to the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

1:27.3

It's this festival where tons of scientists, journalists, politicians, teachers,

1:32.3

all kinds of people get together, hang out and present their ideas.

1:36.3

I was there to tape a live conversation for unexplainable about animal communication

1:41.3

and I got to talk with two brilliant scientists, Karen Bakker and Aza Raskin.

1:46.3

Karen's a professor at the University of British Columbia and she's written a book

1:50.3

all about animal communication called The Sounds of Life.

1:54.3

And Aza is a co-founder of the Earth Species Project, which is a nonprofit

1:58.3

that's trying to decode animal communication using AI.

2:02.3

We had a wide-ranging conversation that started with the basic discovery

2:06.3

that our world is filled with way more animal sounds than a lot of people initially thought.

2:11.3

And from there, we talked about what those sounds might mean,

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