The Santa Fe Institute recently hosted a workshop called “Animals in Translation,” organized by Interspecies Internet, with representatives from XPrize, which aimed to imagine, discuss and co-create robust yet flexible criteria that would constitute evidence for the successful decoding of communication systems of another species. Towards this goal, the meeting brought together experts from the fields of animal communication, cognition, behavior, AI, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, and the arts.
The outcomes will contribute to the wider field of exobiology, too. In addition, representatives of the XPrize Biodiversity + Conservation will further co-develop a prize concept for animal translation based on the criteria developed.
