Speaker 1: It's time for strange science, and we'll go with that. Strange.
Speaker 2: It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3: Well, I hate to steal the puffin story, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm back. Yes, I don't know what happened, but it
Speaker 2: got rid of me, and I thought my way back
Speaker 2: to give the puffin news good.
Speaker 3: I see that it was the puffins that drew you
Speaker 3: out of your slumber.
Speaker 2: I love puffins, right, I just loved the idea of puffins.
Speaker 2: And I was very old when I first saw a
Speaker 2: puffin up in Alaska, and I was startled because I
Speaker 2: thought puffins, when you'd see a picture of a puffin,
Speaker 2: were these big, massive birds. And when I saw them,
Speaker 2: they were these little baby birds. I had no idea
Speaker 2: they were so small. Did you make that same mistake
Speaker 2: or no.
Speaker 3: I have never seen a puffin in real life that
Speaker 3: I can recall. Actually, I probably haven't a zoo somewhere,
Speaker 3: but I don't think i've I've definitely not seen them
Speaker 3: in the wild.
Speaker 2: There's a small rocky island off Iceland that's home to
Speaker 2: the world's largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. When breeding
Speaker 2: season is in full go there are about one point
Speaker 2: five million adults that pair up and nestle into burrows
Speaker 2: on the grassy seaside slopes. Once the chicks hatch, puffin
Speaker 2: moms and dads devote about six weeks to caring for
Speaker 2: their babies. They bring them meals of small fish, they
Speaker 2: fend off predators like seagulls, and then by August or
Speaker 2: early September, the little pufflings are mature enough to live
Speaker 2: on their own. Their instinct is to head for the
Speaker 2: open ocean, where they will spend most of their lives.
Speaker 2: But sometimes they lose their way. Really, I mean, this
Speaker 2: town near Iceland or in Iceland, only got electricity about
Speaker 2: a century ago, So sometimes the puffins take a wrong
Speaker 2: turn because they're dad's by the night lights.
Speaker 3: Well they talk about this. It's not puffing or puffin patrol.
Speaker 3: It's the puffling patrol searches for and rescues these birds
Speaker 3: that have gone astray.
Speaker 2: The baby puffing puffins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's funny. They call it puffling puffling. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to get a little shirt, says I.
Speaker 3: Puffle for food? Or will puffling puffling? Not puffling puffling? Oh?
Speaker 1: I get it, like baby puffing, got it? Never mind?
Speaker 1: Got it, got it, I get it.
Speaker 2: Look at you. You made an error. I asked for
Speaker 2: an error four hours ago and I finally got one. Okay,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a heroin needle in your arm.
Speaker 1: No, but the day is young.
Speaker 2: Or boy.
Speaker 3: Sciences have developed a new artificially intelligence powered modeling method
Speaker 3: that mimics how birds produce song, similar to how large
Speaker 3: language models like CHATCHBT would generate human sentences. They said
Speaker 3: they train these AI models on birds song recordings, and
Speaker 3: the model can successfully recreate sequences of Bengalese finch songs,
Speaker 3: revealing important insights into how birds structure their vocalizations.
Speaker 2: That we Bengalese finch, that.
Speaker 3: We birds and humans can arrange our vocal expressions in
Speaker 3: very structured ways. When it comes to human speech, the
Speaker 3: words follow specific grammatical rules of birds sing in organized
Speaker 3: syllabic patterns, which is a strange way to put it.
Speaker 2: So look up what the Bengalese finch sounds like.
Speaker 1: It sounds a little bit like this. I'm gary, I'm
Speaker 1: a carbon based life form. Get it. Strange science, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: That's very funny.
Speaker 1: And listen.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly where it started, but this was
Speaker 3: the first one of the day because I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gary.
Speaker 2: I have a good sense of knowing.
Speaker 3: Where I'm at. And that started an absolute waterfall of
Speaker 3: those types of calls.
Speaker 1: For some reason.
Speaker 3: I'm giddy.
Speaker 2: This may be better than the apple day. It may
Speaker 2: be better. Yeah, how did that? Was that just that
Speaker 2: guy's own take on something that that you were it's
Speaker 2: giving yourself a pat on the back, froving good direction?
Speaker 3: Well, and it wasn't. I didn't say I don't think.
Speaker 3: I said I have good directions. I know where I'm going.
Speaker 3: I said, my wife tells me often that I.
Speaker 2: Know No, no, no, no. The first time you did I did.
Speaker 2: You said I have a good sense of direction. And
Speaker 2: I specifically remember it because you threw your your wife
Speaker 2: under the bus at the same time she walked twelve
Speaker 2: miles in the wrong direction, and and and you said,
Speaker 2: you said I have a good sense of the direction.
Speaker 2: Now I didn't take it as a look at me,
Speaker 2: I'm so wonderful, but apparently that guy did. But the
Speaker 2: second time you talked about it, you did say, my
Speaker 2: wife does say that I have a good sense of direction.
Speaker 1: The yeah,