Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

deepthaw 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They said we have six months to get our shit in order or they're calling their big brother tube-shaped space probe and we won't like talking to him.

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hmokiguess 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would be interesting if this data could bring us ideas on information theory sort of how we have these nature parallels in algorithms like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...

Imagine Whales have better recall, pass@k metrics and deal with context windows differently, who knows!

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frotaur 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not much info on the actual robot... For instance, I wonder how it has enough battery to follow a whale for 'months'? Which seems really unrealistic, as sperm whales can dive more than a kilometre, can't imagine an autonomous robot can support this kind of pressure, let alone for months at a time?

	▲	bigbadfeline 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The bot doesn't have to dive deep, it can track, follow and listen to the whales from above using the same sonar gear. Also, I kind of doubt the whales would talk much when in the deep.

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lagniappe 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm so tired of the surveillance state.