Trees and Language

From 2017: A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn

I haven’t followed up yet on the book being written about here, but I do have the general sense that we’re going to be surprised how many living things this will end up being true of.

This is a large part of why machine learning is interesting to me. If it’s about nothing else, machine learning is all about pattern recognition–finding patterns that are too complex for us to find on our own, or in a latent space that we aren’t really able to comprehend. Like non-human communication.