• @RebekahWSD
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      52 days ago

      Awww! Thank you for reading it so I won’t waste time on it. I was really hoping we actually got to talking with them!

      • Riskable
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        52 days ago

        You know when we finally get a translation machine working it’s going to pick up on gossip and…

        “Ooh the land creatures are back… BRING ME MORE FISH, PEASANT!”

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      Yeah, the headline is definitely sensationalist. The article doesn’t even go in to the current state of research.

      I recall reading a few years ago that at the very least, we know that dolphins vocalize to each other with consistent sounds (basically names) and also use consistent sounds when playing with found objects.

      But yeah, that article is really lazy journalism which is basically saying we’re applying ML to dolphin vocalisation patterns… which… we’ve been doing for years and years before LLMs were a thing.

      It doesn’t at all go in to what has changed in applying new ML techniques, which IMO would actually make for quite an interesting article.