I think you run into a problem that most animal communication is closer to a library of different sounds, each of which maps to a whole message, than it is something whose content is determined by internal structure, so you don’t have the sort of corpus you need for unsupervised learning (while you do have the ability to do supervised learning).
I still find it mind-blowing, but unsupervised machine translation is a thing.
Holy shit, that’s awesome. I wonder if it would work to figure out what dolphins, whales, etc. are saying.
I think you run into a problem that most animal communication is closer to a library of different sounds, each of which maps to a whole message, than it is something whose content is determined by internal structure, so you don’t have the sort of corpus you need for unsupervised learning (while you do have the ability to do supervised learning).