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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.
The black hole only knows two songs, tho.
Black Hole Sun and Supermassive Black Hole.
Unfortunately, it also partially remembers the first verse, and the chorus of Spoonman, but that shit has been stuck in its head for a couple billion years now...
Feel the rhythm all alone.
Good for it. Those are both fantastic songs.
Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell's voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it's about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.
That's not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.
Chris was one of a kind. Limo Wreck really showed his range, and is one of my favourites.
"WHILE. THE. REST. OF. YOU. HARVEST. THE. SOULS"
There are no pauses in that sentence but they're sung with such punctuated venom that they feel like universes of their own.
What about Black Hole by Betraying The Martyrs?
It's bird-post day it seems
Tits out for Spring!!!
hm, hanging low.. it'll be rain
Looks like they're working out
I saw it! I saw a bird today!
Pics?
Flew away
happens
did the bird stop awkwardly when it notices the microphone
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)
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.
I doubt he was singing for itself, most probably it wasn’t singing for us.
Birds don't know shit about microphones.