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Terrible article. The crucial info that's missing from the article is that they used AI to translate whale language to human, and then from human to whale agai

Terrible article. The crucial info that's missing from the article is that they used AI to translate whale language to human, and then from human to whale again. So there was, in fact, a conversation, mediated by AI; a lot like using Google Translate to talk to a whale. Wait for a better article on it.

JohnMakin 3y ago
Thank you, I was really hoping this was the case, this is a pet topic of interest of mine.
- debo_ 3y ago
  A pet whale topic?
fsckboy 3y ago
interestingly, it puts us in a room adjacent to that of a famous thought experiment from philosophy, John Searle's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Mizza 3y ago
The paper is linked in the article: https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ (also has a PDF download)
- JohnMakin 3y ago
  Ah woops I posted this in the main thread before I saw this comment, thanks