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Elephants Are the First Non-Human Animals Now Known to Use Names, AI Research Shows

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In a study as amazing as it is probably unsurprising, a team of biologists and researchers using machine learning tools discovered that elephants call each other by names.

For an animal that is known to perform deeply social acts like grieving, raising children collectively, and communicating across miles of countryside using complex low-frequency vocalizations, the use of names seems to be natural for their societies, but being able to know an elephant’s name in ‘Elephantese’ offers the potential to dramatically reduce human-elephant conflict.

The study was conducted at Colorado State University and was organized around simple observations that the matriarch of an elephant herd the researchers were following in Kenya would use a call that brought all the elephants together around her.

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Now that’s thrilling.

Perhaps with more research we can build a translator and talk to the elephants : I would like that. Indeed if elephants have the memory people say they do, which I doubt but it is possible given the enormous size of their brain, perhaps elephants could be used as court reporters and in other memory intensive roles in around 100 years due to the possible emergent problem of AI deepfakes rendering video recordings unreliable.

Note that the last paragraph was made in jest ; I imagine the elephants would recoil at the thought of having to listen to humans babble on.
 
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