i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication and what it's already found is insane... > AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human > AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other > AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands > AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means > an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds > Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species > AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks > a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language

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All the cliches about tech journalism are true. It has become almost entirely about the human relationships, the intrigues, the politics, the deals, etc. The sense of wonder at the future possibilities of the tech itself is gone.

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Am convinced @annaskaya is one of the more interesting VCs no one's talking about > Was CEO of Groupon Russia > Google Scholar, Singularity University > Built Basepaws, the 23&Me for cats... > ...Which became one of Shark Tank's best performing deals/ exit to Zoetis > Now runs @Ani__VC - the only independent early stage fund in Pet, built to capture a $500B category that generalist investors are unqualified to evaluate > Decides in the dog days of summer to launch a newsletter Next week we go live w/ alpha on pet tech funding, seed-stage advice for founders and market trends. Supply chain, longevity, biotech, consumer services, ...it's a wild and wooly space If you want to stay close to the category or support the work, pls subscribe below!