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Deep Squeak is the name of an artificial intelligence program that was designed to detect the high-frequency “squeaks” mice and rats make when they are stressed.
But a new application of the technology is putting a much bigger emphasis on the “deep”: It’s being used to search for whales and other marine mammals in a ocean environments.
If that seems like a classic case of mislabeling, blame marine ecologist Elizabeth Ferguson and her company Ocean Science Analytics, which leads the project.