Shane Gero @[email protected]

Hi! I'm Shane. #actuallivingscientist I put computers on whales to study the oceans, origins of culture & get people to protect the deep!

An updated version of the AI for whale communication paper is now available: arxiv.org/abs/2303.10931…

I had a lot of fun writing this piece and speaking to the people trying to understand what whales, elephants and bats are saying. With @sam_learner @samjoiner @inari_ta 👉 ft.com/ai-animals

This article follows on from this Tech Tonic podcast with @johnthornhillft and @ManuelaSaragosa - which I recommend listening to if you want to hear more about what it’s like hanging out in the ocean watching sperm whale calves play open.spotify.com/episode/1xijkI…

The same technology that is powering ChatGPT could allow us to reach into the non-human world, and begin to understand — even speak — animal languages, or so researchers hope. Here’s how: on.ft.com/4aYsmU5

@oceansresearch Squeeee! right back at ya!

Squeeeeee! That’s us congratulating you in killer whale. Can’t wait to read this profile on your important work!

Thank you @ElizKolbert!

This detailed and caring storytelling by @ElizKolbert in @NewYorker about our little team of scientists @ProjectCETI listening to and learning from the little (but growing!) families of whales off #Dominica! newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

@lisabethsparkle Me too! I am very much hoping that one day it goes from my head to everyone's hands

@sgero I can picture your children’s book in my head.

@WildMeORG @Weinbergrrrrr @CraigAWelch @ElizKolbert @holmbergius @Flukebook gets a shout out in there!!

@Weinbergrrrrr @CraigAWelch @ElizKolbert @sgero @holmbergius I collaborate with @sgero on photo ID via Flukebook.org. I am a huge fan of Shane's team's work and have offered to simply make the coffee if I can be a part of it. :)

The extraordinary @ElizKolbert follows my pal @sgero and his family of sperm whales around the Caribbean learning about efforts to use AI/machine learning to communicate w/whales. And it’s a fantastic story. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

This was a truly humbling experience and I am overwhelmed in sharing this moment with Unit A. I've realized I have spent half my life learning from the sperm whales off Dominica and to know these whales is an honor for which I am deeply grateful. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Until fairly recently, the dominant view among scientists was that non-human animals didn’t manifest real intelligence or live in dynamic cultures. Read how @carlsafina and @sgero are challenging this theory in a conversation with journalist @meownderthal bit.ly/42kA31l

@sgero shares what he has learned from the thousands of hours he has spent in the company of sperm whales, including how similar their lives are to our own and how their cultures define their identity, just as ours do. @InsideNatGeo @DomWhale #scicomm bit.ly/40ugG4Q

tl;dr: Acoustic properties such as spectral mean or spectral regularity might be informative in sperm whale communication system Read our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2303.10931 With amazing student Andrej Leban @anleb1 @berkeleySClab and @sgero @ProjectCETI

Our network learns properties considered meaningful by existing research, such as: -Number of clicks -ICI timing The network also uncovers new acoustic properties that may be meaningful but haven't been hypothesized as such before: -Spectral mean -Spectral regularity

How do we approach an unknown communication system? We train GANs that learn to imitate whale vocalizations and encode information into those vocalizations. Using CDEV (causal disentanglement with extreme values), we can infer which properties the model encodes as meaningful.

Uncovering the unknowns in sperm whale communication🐳 using deep learning We introduce a novel interpretability technique (CDEV) that combines generative deep models and causal inference methods. Our model discovers meaningful properties, both novel and previously hypothesized

As a speaker at #Bioneers2023, I'm excited to join an incredible group of leaders to discuss solutions to today’s most pressing challenges and help us get the big wheels of massive change turning. Join me! Use code BioSpeaker for 15% off: conference.bioneers.org/shane-gero-key…

Preserving animal cultures as a conservation strategy reported by @carolynbeeler for @theworld in connection with @UNBiodiversity #COP15 theworld.org/media/2022-12-…

@LPawlik123 @NatGeoEducation @microTERRA11 @ali_pressel @Jaclyntravels Congratulations! Can you please share a link?

Got a surprise to tell! The first book my daughter Katy and I wrote is for sale on Amazon as of this morning. Ahem..It's pretty cute- complete w lesson plan. 😍 Please share it with all your friends and teachers! @NatGeoEducation @sgero @microTERRA11 @ali_pressel @Jaclyntravels