An AI model is said to hold live exchanges with birds

Researchers at the Earth Species Project and McGill University have reportedly built a model, called zf-aim, that holds live exchanges with birds. If it holds up, the system does more than classify or decode birdsong. It answers back in real time. Details are thin so far: we have only a summary of the claim, with no published results or independent check. Still, a machine that takes part in a conversation with another species is the kind of thing worth watching.