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Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview

Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview

Update: 2023-09-19
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The Canadian scientist and author Karen Bakker, who died unexpectedly in August this year, was a leading voice in the bioacoustic research community. Her 2022 book, The Sounds of Life, explained how it might one day be possible to create a kind of Google Translate for animals and was the inspiration behind this Tech Tonic series. This episode contains the full interview that we recorded with her. We are posting it as a tribute to her remarkable work. 


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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview

Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview