My favourite bird song fact is that parrots (even small ones like budgies) can associate particular sound sequences with specific members of their flocks, including themselves. They can also introduce themselves to each other with those sequences.
If you happen to own a parrot, it most likely has a name in its own language and has told it to you. And it also gave you a name.
This is what AI should be for, finding the patterns and deciphering
AI has been and continues to be used for these sorts of things. Generative AI like LLMs and image generators might be getting all the media attention and attract the techbros at the moment, but they are fundamentally inappropriate for this purpose, but other AI machine learning models are making advancements all the time.
Every tool has its use, as long as it's not being shoved everywhere for the sake of shareholders™
They've so far used AI to detect all the different parts of a particular whale species' language, like the different sounds and timing. Deciphering the meaning will be much harder since it's difficult to observe their behavior, but small land mammals should go much smoother.
There's a fun open source app called WhoBIRD that identifies birds by their calls in real time!
It's actually really impressive and a lot of fun identifying the local birds. This is a use of learning models I can totally get behind. :D
thats what a lot of AI is used for, just in different fields.
did the bird stop awkwardly when it notices the microphone
Just sayin'
Once I sat in a field listening to Victor Wooten and whistling along with him. On a fence nearby was I think a brushed shouldered blackbird? Brushed shouldered something. It started singing with me and doing a little dance. Eventually it even started syncopating its part. Like, you could see it waiting for the timing to be just right for each note. On key and everything. Went on for about half an hour.
Birds are cool.
Or the last bird was just a lil eepy birb out of energy
RIAA: *heavy breathing intensifies*
The song is 'Happiness by the kilowatt' by Alexisonfire.
(Which itself is a reference to 'The Euphio Question' by Kurt Vonnegut)
Birds don't know shit about microphones.
Quran 17:44
تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ ٱلسَّبْعُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ ۚ وَإِن مِّن شَىْءٍ إِلَّا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِۦ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًۭا
"The seven heavens, the earth, and all those in them glorify Him. There is not a single thing that does not glorify His praises—but you cannot comprehend their glorification. He is indeed Most Forbearing, All-Forgiving."
Wrong crowd buddy.
I am sorry that people reacted so poorly to this. I thought it was beautiful. It is still bothering me, after seeing the reports made on this.
it's the internet, and this is a post about blackholes and a bird being recorded. This is a tad bit out of place for what it is, not surprised people downvoted it, probably because they thought it was irrelevant, oh well, that's the internet, sometimes people like what you have to say, other times they don't. Don't think about it too hard, at the end of the day it's just internet karma.
interesting moderation history you got there
It’s all vibes man
I doubt he was singing for itself, most probably it wasn’t singing for us.
