They are using AI to try and decode whale language and they are really just at the start, for example they are trying to find the structure of the languages to see if they have meaning associated with sounds and if the language can even translate but it is an interesting field for sure
But we can't assume that language is used in the same way as any human language (eg nouns, verbs, etc) so we're not that far along yet, so far they talked to a humpback and it was pretty much checking to see if saying what they thought "hello" was back and forth and it seemed to work
I can't find the links you might find most but give "ai whale communication" a Google and see how you go, remember to check the "news" and... what happened to the "journals" section? Weird
Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if they do have a 30 ‘word’ ‘vocabulary’ and that great depth is communicated by inflections and emphasis and enunciation, and that it will be basically impossible to quantize into elements we can assign human phonemes to.
Like maybe the words are whole general phrases, and tone clarifies the specific meaning.
Like “been a while, huh?” and “where have you been I’m starving!” and “I missed you, mom” and “we were swamped while you took your lunch break!” and “I got so horny waiting for you” are all very different things, but orca language could maybe communicate all those with the same “word.”
TesseractToo@reddit
They are using AI to try and decode whale language and they are really just at the start, for example they are trying to find the structure of the languages to see if they have meaning associated with sounds and if the language can even translate but it is an interesting field for sure
But we can't assume that language is used in the same way as any human language (eg nouns, verbs, etc) so we're not that far along yet, so far they talked to a humpback and it was pretty much checking to see if saying what they thought "hello" was back and forth and it seemed to work
I can't find the links you might find most but give "ai whale communication" a Google and see how you go, remember to check the "news" and... what happened to the "journals" section? Weird
here's a starter:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492442-we-will-soon-be-able-to-talk-with-other-species-which-will-be-first/
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Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if they do have a 30 ‘word’ ‘vocabulary’ and that great depth is communicated by inflections and emphasis and enunciation, and that it will be basically impossible to quantize into elements we can assign human phonemes to.
Like maybe the words are whole general phrases, and tone clarifies the specific meaning.
Like “been a while, huh?” and “where have you been I’m starving!” and “I missed you, mom” and “we were swamped while you took your lunch break!” and “I got so horny waiting for you” are all very different things, but orca language could maybe communicate all those with the same “word.”