PILLAR V — THE FRONTIER
The honest map of where the field is.
What we can do today. What we cannot do yet. What we should not do. Ethics, open data, contribution pathways.
NOW vs AIMED
Demonstrated vs aspirational.
What works today
✓
Automatic detection
Segmenting crow calls from hours of field audio
✓
Unsupervised discovery
Finding call categories from geometry alone
✓
Caller identification
Recognizing known individuals from voice
✓
Zero-shot captioning
NatureLM-audio generates plausible descriptions
What's still ahead
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Compositional decoding
Understanding calls as combined meaningful units
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Bidirectional dialogue
Real-time two-way communication between human and crow
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Crow dictionary
Human-readable glosses for every call type
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Cross-species transfer
Which structures generalize across corvids
ETHICS
Six rules for listening back.
01
We do not deploy playback features
02
We cite primary research, always
03
We distinguish demonstrated from aspirational
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We do not overclaim translation
05
We credit recording contributors
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