Google develops AI model for humans to talk to dolphins

cá heo - Ảnh 1. — Dolphins use calls to communicate with their own kind - Photo: AFP

According to IFLScience on April 15, Google has collaborated with researchers from the Wild Dolphin Project and Georgia Tech (WDP) to develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called DolphinGemma. This is a dolphin-friendly large language model (LLM).

Dolphins are highly intelligent and vocal animals. They use a variety of high-frequency sounds to court mates, find mates, coordinate behavior, and maintain group harmony. Over the years, WDP has collected a large amount of data on dolphin calls and has begun to identify patterns in their calls.

With the help of DolphinGemma, they wanted to dig into this data to discover patterns and regularities that could help reveal what the dolphins were really saying.

The AI model was initially trained using data from Atlantic spotted dolphins, but the team hopes to apply the findings to other species such as spinner dolphins.

Thanks to advanced technology, DolphinGemma can convert dolphin sounds into a format that AI can analyze, making it easy to detect patterns and their meaning.

It is worth noting that despite being a powerful model, DolphinGemma can still run on smartphones, providing flexibility for researchers in natural wildlife environments.

DolphinGemma will process the data using LLM, a type of machine learning model that is particularly well-suited to this type of work because they are designed to find patterns in complex sequences, whether it's human text or dolphin calls.

The AI model was trained to recognize repeating patterns, sound combinations, and contextual cues in dolphin calls, which helped researchers work toward understanding how those sounds might function in a meaningful structure, like a language.

One of the main goals of the WDP research is to understand how dolphins communicate and interact with each other in the wild, so the team can link specific sounds to real-time behavior – something that would be impossible to do away from their natural habitat.

Ultimately, the project hopes to explore the potential for two-way interaction between humans and dolphins using this technology. In other words, they want to aim for dolphin speech.

However, there are many hurdles to overcome to achieve this goal. One of them is that dolphins in different regions have different calls, suggesting that they may communicate in different “regional dialects” or languages.

Scientists hope tools like DolphinGemma can help them uncover the mysteries of dolphin communication and lay the groundwork for what could become a true interspecies conversation.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/google-phat-trien-mo-hinh-ai-de-con-nguoi-noi-chuyen-voi-ca-heo-20250416110053638.htm