{"id":198218,"date":"2024-10-24T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-helps-humans-have-a-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain"},"modified":"2024-10-24T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:23:33","slug":"ai-helps-humans-have-a-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-helps-humans-have-a-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain","title":{"rendered":"AI helps humans have a 20-minute \u2018conversation\u2019 with a humpback whale named Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-helps-humans-have-a-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a remarkable encounter off the coast of Alaska, human scientists had what they describe as a \u201cconversation\u201d with a humpback whale named Twain. Dr. Brenda McCowan from the University of California Davis was at the heart of this unexpected exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McCowan and her team, known as Whale-SETI, have been studying how humpback whales communicate. They\u2019re aiming to understand whale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/language-like-patterns-decoded-in-sperm-whale-communication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communication systems<\/a> to help in the search for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Using an underwater speaker, the team played a recorded humpback \u201ccontact\u201d call into the ocean. To their astonishment, Twain approached their boat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/conversation-with-humpback-whale-gives-seti-team-ideas-on-how-to-talk-to-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began responding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable encounter off the coast of Alaska, human scientists had what they describe as a \u201cconversation\u201d with a humpback whale named Twain. Dr. Brenda McCowan from the University of California Davis was at the heart of this unexpected exchange. Dr. McCowan and her team, known as Whale-SETI, have been studying how humpback whales [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}