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Swedish Startup Uses AI to Figure Out What Dolphins Talk About
- meri_dian 10y ago>“We hope to be able to understand dolphins with the help of artificial intelligence technology" > “We don’t know what they are talking about yet.” So the work hasn't started yet and no progress has been made. Bloomberg headline is as clickbaity as possible
- aphextron 10y agoI can certainly see using ML to build a grammar, but how could you possibly assign meaning to the phrases? Maybe you could have some rudimentary vocabulary based on physical objects, but any kind of abstract thought would be impossible to convey.
- lithos 10y agoI've always imagined dolphins as playing word games all the time. They play with everything else, so I think something as complex and fun as words is fair game. If it wasn't such an interesting problem that might lead to related interesting leads, I would feel sorry for the programmer on the project (if my imagination is even remotely true)...