{{short description|Initiative for understanding the communication of sperm whales}} {{Infobox organization | type = Non-profit | name = Project CETI | founded = 2020 | leader_name = David Gruber | leader_title = Lead | focus = Understanding the communication of sperm whales | fields = Marine Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Linguistics | website = {{URL|https://www.projectceti.org}} }}
''' Project CETI''' is an international initiative to understand the acoustic communication of sperm whales using advances in artificial intelligence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientists-plan-to-use-ai-to-try-to-decode-the-language-of-whales |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419151847/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientists-plan-to-use-ai-to-try-to-decode-the-language-of-whales |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |title= Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language|last=Welch|first=Craig |date=April 19, 2021 |website=NGS |publisher=National Geographic Society |access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anthes |first1=Emily |title=The Animal Translators |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/translators-animals-naked-mole-rats.html |access-date=October 28, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=August 30, 2022}}</ref> The project has an interdisciplinary scientific board including marine biologists, artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists, theoretical computer scientists, and linguists. Its name, '''Ce'''tacean '''T'''ranslation '''I'''nitiative,<ref> [https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-we-on-the-verge-of-chatting-with-whales/ Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?] Christoph Droesser, ''Hakai'', October 26, 2021</ref> is a reference to the SETI Institute.<ref name="Talk to Whales"> {{cite web | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales | title = Can We Talk to Whales? | last = Kolbert | first = Elizabeth | publisher = The New Yorker | date = September 4, 2023 | access-date = September 4, 2023 }} </ref> The project has a base on the island of Dominica where recordings are being collected.<ref name="pmid35663036">{{cite journal| author=Andreas J, Beguš G, Bronstein MM, Diamant R, Delaney D, Gero S | display-authors=etal| title=Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales. | journal=iScience | year= 2022 | volume= 25 | issue= 6 | article-number= 104393 | pmid=35663036 | doi=10.1016/j.isci.2022.104393 | pmc=9160774 | bibcode=2022iSci...25j4393A}} </ref>
The organization has been selected as a TED Audacious Project.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.audaciousproject.org/grantees/project-ceti | title=The Audacious Project: Project CETI | work=www.audaciousproject.org | access-date=October 28, 2022}}</ref> CETI researchers have identified 156 distinct codas and their basic components, a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" much like phonemes.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240709-the-sperm-whale-phonetic-alphabet-revealed-by-ai The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI] BBC News, Katherine Latham and Anna Bressanin, 11 July 2024</ref> {{Clear}}[[File:Sperm whale head anatomy (transverse + sagittal).svg|thumb|right|400px|In the sperm whale's head, the organs above the jaw are devoted to sound generation]] [[File:Lesser Antilles 250m.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Dominica is an island nation in the Eastern Caribbean Sea located between Guadeloupe and Martinique]] ==See also== * Whale sound * Human–animal communication * Animal cognition * Animal communication * Interspecies communication *Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence
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