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AI is everywhere these days and it's being used or at least some are trying to use it for just about anything you can think of.

We all probably know about artificial intelligence of the chat GPT variety now, but what about AI for animals?

Specifically, science is starting to apply AI to understand animal language.

Tech editor Sophie Bushwick and producer Kelsal Harper bring us this fascinating look.

It is just what machine learning is discovering about how animals talk to one another.

And perhaps this new research might just start to break down the divide between us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

The episode was first aired on March 17th, 2023. Enjoy!

Have you ever wondered what songbirds are actually saying to each other with all of their chirping?

Or what your cat could possibly be yowling about so early in the morning?

Well, powerful new technologies are helping researchers decode animal communication and even begin to talk back to non-humans.

Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence might have us at the brink of interspecies communication.

Today, we're talking about how scientists are starting to communicate with creatures like bats and honeybees

and how these conversations are forcing us to rethink our relationship with other species.

I'm Kelsal Harper, multimedia editor at Scientific American.

And I'm Sophie Bushwick, tech editor. You're listening to science quickly.

Hey, Sophie. Hi, Kelsal.

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