Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises that are far outside humanity's range of hearing, demonstrating how artificial intelligence has translated the incredible complexity of nature's soundtrack. She asks us to consider the moral weight of such transformative technology and explores the futuristic opportunities presented for conservation, interspecies communication and more.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:13.8	We're about to learn some of the sounds in nature that we can't hear with human ears.
0:19.5	But as conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker reveals in her Ted 2023 talk,
0:24.6	AI is now helping us decode the language of nature and it's deepening our understanding
0:30.9	and connection to other creatures after the break.
0:34.9	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:40.1	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes us Tick.
0:45.0	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:49.4	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:54.5	This season we're investigating what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity.
0:59.1	Because if there's one thing we know through the history of animal cognition studies,
1:03.0	is everything we were sure animals couldn't do turns out that they can and that just
1:07.0	keeps progressing every year.
1:09.7	Find and follow rethinking without him Grant, wherever you're listening.
1:18.4	So we're in the middle of a fierce debate about how artificial intelligence will change
1:23.4	human society but have you thought about how AI will transform your relationship to
1:28.7	the non-human world?
1:30.4	I spent years studying how scientists use devices like this combined with AI to listen
1:36.8	to the hidden sounds of nature and decode non-human communication.
1:42.0	Hidden sounds because much acoustic communication in nature occurs in the high ultrasound above
1:48.9	your hearing range or in the deep, infrared sound.
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