Project CETI
A deep field program where labels are scarce, signals are noisy, and the system has to learn structure before language.
Machine learning, field recordings, and robotics are being used to model the structure of sperm whale communication.
Project CETI is compelling because it refuses the easy version of the story. There is no clean labeled dataset waiting to be mined. The work starts in the ocean with difficult recordings, uncertain structure, and a problem that has to be approached long before translation becomes plausible.
That is why the robotics angle matters too. CETI is not only about modeling whale codas in a lab. It is also about building the field systems that make rendezvous, sensing, and data capture possible in the first place.
For Dispatch, it is the rare story that feels scientific, strange, and operational all at once. The ambition is enormous, but the machinery is concrete.