Do Researchers Already Know What Matters About Birds?

Decrypted puts the question to Intel. Tyler Lee, a UC Berkeley PhD hired by Amir, another Berkeley-trained computational neuroscientist, works on virtual assistants. Much of it is context. In a car, knowing the speaker is the driver or the passenger makes the request easier, because a driver is more likely to ask for directions. Lee says that resembles his zebra-finch work. A bird recognizes the kind of call first, then who is calling: a mate, family, or a threat. Amir says his team has also studied flies, rats, locusts, and worms. Those simple animals still do things neural networks cannot simulate.