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Last Week in AI #141: AI understands whale speech, Facebook shuts down face recognition system, AI in US national security

Training language models to predict whale speech, Facebook will deactivate facial recognition features, and private lobbying for AI in US national security, and more!

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Nov 08, 2021
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Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), conducted by an interdisciplinary team of biologists and computer scientists, aims to understand the language of whales, assuming there is one. Recent studies suggest that other mammals may also possess language in the same sense that humans do, namely, a…

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