Google working to decode dolphin communication using AI

Google working to decode dolphin communication using AI

Google has developed a new AI model called DolphinGemma to detect dolphin vocalization patterns

Google is using artificial intelligence (AI) to try and understand how dolphins communicate with one another – with the hope that one day humans could use the technology to chat with them. (iStock)

Google has teamed up with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a Florida-based non-profit which has been studying and recording dolphin sounds for 40 years, to build the new AI model called DolphinGemma.

A zookeeper wearing a protective mask looks inside the mouth of a dolphin at the zoologic park "Planete Sauvage" in Saint-Pere-en-Retz, outside Nantes, on May 6, 2020. Dolphins are one of the smartest animals on Earth and have been revered for thousands of years for their intelligence, emotions and social interaction with humans. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)