To somewhat overstate this paper, it shows chimpanzees have their own language and communicate vocally using words
After spending a day with Chimpanzees where they climbed all over me, played in the jungle and basically did their thing in their group, it was blatantly obvious to see the intelligence in their eyes. [1]
I have no doubt they have a language with each other, we're just not smart enough to figure it out yet.
> Focusing on the structure of vocal sequences, we analysed 4826 recordings of 46 wild adult chimpanzees from Taï National Park.
If this same analysis were conducted with other populations of chimpanzees as well, could it be determined whether different populations use different languages? I believe this sort of thing has been tried with Orcas, with the conclusion that different populations have different languages.
Does that mean we can use one of those AI language models and develop a way to translate what the chimpanzees are communicating to each other?
Has similar research been done on bird song? It seems to me that bird song could also be described as ordered recombinatorial sequences, for instance the mockingbird takes the sounds of other birds and strings them together to create new songs.
Has anyone tried training a language model on animal vocalizations?
Just don't call it "language" or the human exceptionalists will get very upset.