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@pnthien21
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 am
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@706AUNTIE
June 19, 2025 at 11:04 am
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@XeclipseXZ
June 19, 2025 at 11:06 am
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@timothylopez8572
June 19, 2025 at 11:09 am
Not just wolves. What are the animals going to say when they learn to talk to us?
@unicyclejack
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 am
*when we learn to listen to them
@sooma-ai
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 am
Jeffrey T. Reed discusses using AI to decode wolf communication in Yellowstone. He explains wolf vocalizations, including howls, barks, and ‘woas’, their social functions, and how AI and recording devices are advancing our understanding of wolf behavior and language.
@creatvsdd99
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 am
How many years will it take scientists to use AI to decipher what wolves are saying when they howl, bark and more? What a time to be alive!👌
@PhạmMinhTúTú
June 19, 2025 at 11:13 am
My idea of a hot date now involves microwaving popcorn and streaming a rom-com. Sometimes, you just need more laughter than moaning😚
@Rakadeja
June 19, 2025 at 11:19 am
This made me extremely emotional. Thank you, Jeff and co – this research is absolutely vital to the future of our ecosystems’ diversity.
@NeonThoughtBox
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 am
What even is this nonsense? AI is such a waste of energy and hardware, only to put out incorrect results that can’t be audited. :/
@nigelsenchez
June 19, 2025 at 12:07 pm
I bet your grandma said the same thing about electricity 😂
@Slapsofathousand
June 19, 2025 at 1:11 pm
If you can’t see the implications….
@kenromero9236
June 20, 2025 at 12:10 am
@@SlapsofathousandI think Stevie Wonder would be able to see the implications.
@Slapsofathousand
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 am
@@kenromero9236 that just made my morning.
@havo5684
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 am
*Anyone in 2756?* 💖
@hayeonkim7838
June 19, 2025 at 11:29 am
아니 이 제목보고 안 들어오는 걸 어떻게 참음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@LêDiệuThươngng
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 am
Thank you so much for your hard work and creativity. Your videos are always interesting and satisfying.🐍🪐⛏
@HuỳnhHồngViệtệt
June 19, 2025 at 11:50 am
Thank you for your creative approach to content creation. Your videos are always interesting and entertaining.🐷💷‼️
@SuperMegaCoffeeGuru
June 19, 2025 at 12:45 pm
This is some very interesting research and some great ideas for combing through data in ways we might not think of. But I hate that he is using the term Alpha because it just calls back to the study from the 1960’s that has already been disproven. Call her the matriarch if you must, it carries less miss-informed connotations.
@SevenColors-VII
June 19, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Good one 🎉
@Slapsofathousand
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 pm
So freaking cool.
@Purplekitty456
June 19, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Why am I crying?
@ListenGrasshopper
June 19, 2025 at 2:27 pm
Researcher and graduate Univ Montana 94′-02′ n worked with wolves and specialized in GIS back then. 1. Ai will decode ALL animal communication 2. We are now #2 on this planet for the first time ever on this planet and look what we’ve done to our threats 3. Ai will do the same to us in near future and 4. Wolves since the reintro have DECIMATED elk herds in every area and have dispersed all over the west and are wreaking havoc on livestock and elk n mule deer by more than 50% in some areas. They are constantly killing whole packs now in Montana and Idaho because they are “protected” yet no use for them in high numbers near municipalties when they start killing all the cows n sheep. These so called researchers don’t believe in hunting and keeping them at small numbers to be apart of the ecosystem without decimating hunting food and raising food. The wolves kill indescriminately just to kill. They don’t eat most of the elk deer cows n sheep that they kill and don’t cache them n come back later like bears. They just walk away. It’s so bad that the ranchers motto is 3S’s now. Shoot, Shovel, Shut up cause there is no hunting or trapping but in very small numbers.
In conclusion the reintroducrion has been a failure and hurt people by reducing the numbers of animals we rely on for food and thus prices have gone thru the roof for beef and mule deer and elk. They need to have open season again and do annual counts so when it gets to one small pack in a 100-150 mile area that they stop the open hunting season until they see the dispersers again setting up new packs and dens then open it up hunting again. If not there will be no hunting and with beef in decline it will become unaffordable for most. Humans need meat to survive not wolves tho wolves should be part of a healthy ecosystem but they are an apex predator that kills everything so they need to be regulated and kept at low levels.
@j0sH092
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm
really asking the hard hitting questions…. In the grand scheme of what we all know the future of AI to be … this effort is a complete waste of time and a distraction to the uninformed
@Wszechrzecz
June 19, 2025 at 6:52 pm
The talk provided fascinating insights into interspecies communication through AI, and I’m curious to see how this field will evolve in the future.
@Jbvgghjouy
June 20, 2025 at 12:42 am
Sorry but this hunter guy kills animals for sport then lectures us about preserving wildlife? No thanks
@KamsuGyan
June 20, 2025 at 5:28 am
Stop it they would get hunt by sound detection itself
@Project11-o4o
June 20, 2025 at 7:00 am
this made me so emotional omgosh….what an interesting technique xx
@dee7953
June 20, 2025 at 7:20 am
So I’ll be able to speak wolf soon, got it
@Ordinateuretweb
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 pm
In your research do you take into account wolves sounds analysis from wolves owners. They know wolves very well, what do they think about this AI research ? Are they helping by giving you some sounds meanings they are used to ? Do you collaborate with them ?
@crywolfproject
June 21, 2025 at 8:59 am
Great question. Yes, I talk to as many of them as I can, including myself and my wolf-hybrid. My primary focus is on wild wolves, at landscape scale, with large territories, and how they communicate within pack structures (intra and inter). I enjoy talking to those who have wolves and learn many insights from them.
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
June 20, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Summary:
AI hasn’t found or decoded anything yet. Some nature documentary and a call to preserve wild life.
Saved you 11 minutes.
@MRFLOPPYmr
June 21, 2025 at 5:10 am
Oversell and under deliver is the reason people start turning away
@Jk-ko6tc
June 21, 2025 at 8:19 am
You clearly did not go through the whole video.
@crywolfproject
June 21, 2025 at 9:05 am
@@Jk-ko6tc Thank you. I get a lot of pressure to “overhype” AI by the media. What I tried to convey in the short amount of time I had for this TED talk is that AI (at least for now) is REALLY useful for finding wolf howls in massive datasets of 24×7 recordings. (Think about it: no human had ever stayed up all day and all night to figure out when wolves vocalize the most…that is, when they are actively communicating. Without AI this would have been a lot of labor to discover). What it hasn’t done, for all sorts of reasons (the most important of which is we don’t know if non-human animals have “words” like human languages do), is decode animal communication. It is a tool. That is all.
@Harry-b7v7x
June 20, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Legendary!!
@tmartino9863
June 20, 2025 at 8:21 pm
Many of us that have worked with wolves closely for many years, understand this very well. How wonderful you did this for everyone!
@XAirForcedotcom
June 21, 2025 at 7:43 am
Unified universal language protocol. It’s a general method to talk to anything. Yes, you have to talk to the animals and do the rest of your science before you leave earth and start exploring the solar system, which only makes sense. You don’t get to go outside and until you’ve done your homework, cleaned up your room and get along with the rest of your siblings.. you don’t get to go to other orbital bodies and make a mass until you do all of your science here on earth clean up the environment and stop going to war with each other but unify. Oh, these are only kindergarten rules that you taught everybody and then you become adults follow a single thing so get it done.
@AbhijitDesai-wl8rd
June 21, 2025 at 7:44 am
This video gave me an insight into why many people around the rural regions of India think of dogs howling (‘crying’ as they would interpret it) consider as a bad omen. It is used as a bad omen even in the horror movies related to ghosts. But the real reason behind this superstition is something else. Wolfs which are evolutionary cousins of dogs howl as a signal of threat. This threat could be existential threat including jungle fires and earthquakes. Because of better perception of nature’s indicatory signals in animals (other than humans) they would immediately try to protect their herd from being a victim of catastrophe. This would have helped humans when they were primitives… and the belief carried on although in corrupt form… as a superstition.
@tonfan
June 21, 2025 at 11:47 am
now if I can only decode wtf my wife is talking about…..
@standalone8314
June 22, 2025 at 4:45 am
the thing is once we learn to understand something, we want to control (fix) it.
@crywolfproject
June 22, 2025 at 8:26 pm
…or, I hope, respect it. It worked for me.
@dt3230
June 22, 2025 at 4:47 am
Very interesting ❤
@Project12-f9j
June 22, 2025 at 5:33 am
Thias is awesome!! Imagine actually being able to talk to wolves!!
@ONEYEDPiRAT
June 22, 2025 at 10:38 am
4:50 took me back to the howling movie wow!
@timeenoughforart
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 pm
How long till AI is used to track and kill wolves? Or create anti wolf propaganda? Ya this is cool and all, but AI is an existential threat. A good argument could be made that this is just fancy propaganda for Google Deep Mind.