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Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/scientists-discover-surprising-language-shortcuts-in-birdsong--just-like-humans/
10•gnufx•3d ago

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orwin•44m ago
Four years ago, I wrote that to me, Transformers' most exiting application could be translating whale's songs. I was obviously very wrong (won't be the first time, won't be the last), but I imagine recording of birds should be more numerous than whales', so maybe someday, hopefully, transformers would integrate bird songs to the list of languages they can translate to and from.
moi2388•32m ago
How will you train this? I understand it replicating bird songs, but what data will it use for actual translation?
chrisco255•4m ago
The Crowsetta Stone
suddenlybananas•19m ago
Don't monkeys on a typewriter with a space bar also have the same statistical property?

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Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans

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