AI on the Verge of Understanding Animal Languages

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Artificial intelligence is such an amazing field. One place where it is making strides is in decoding languages. Not only is it extremely good at this task, but recent developments in AI have opened the chance to understand animal language. This is such an amazing topic and in this video I briefly discuss this topic. This video was sponsored by Brilliant
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[@rorycannon7295]

bro imagine telling somebody 10 years ago that we would assemble an artificial intelligence that would speak exclusively whale

[@ScienceDiscussed]

It is crazy how fast AI has developed.

[@goranACD]

Imagine telling it to someone 2 years ago

[@mydogsareneat]

You say that like this hasnt all unfolded in the past year.

[@rorycannon7295]

@@mydogsareneat in fact its part of my point the speed that this is unfolding.

[@coriddeval1815]

I can’t believe just 30 seconds ago I’m even seeing that as a possibility, star gate Atlantis kinda had the idea whales were intelligent enough to warn about impending doom by singing and creating a hallucinations of it in peoples minds, I forget if it was a computer translating the sound into the images in their minds or the whales being taught to do this.

[@matze874]

The correct translation to "I am going hiking" is: "Ich gehe wandern"

[@ScienceDiscussed]

This is why I need AI translation rather than trusting my poor German.

[@yoshikagekira9698]

@@ScienceDiscussedit was close though. Wanderweg means hiking trail. You could have also said ich gehe auf einem Wanderweg, which would mean I walk on a hiking trail

[@ScienceDiscussed]

@@yoshikagekira9698 As soon as I saw the comment I knew what I had done wrong. The worst thing is I lived in Switzerland (Basel) for three years and still got this wrong. Haha

[@Nightscape_]

I want to uplift spiders so we can tell them to move their webs off the trails during the day. It sucks to go out for a morning hike just to see a bunch of spiderwebs blocking the way. The invisible ones that hit your face are the worst.

[@ScienceDiscussed]

Coming from Australia I am all for the spiders keeping to themselves.

[@reiteration6273]

What a time we live in. With the news always full of doom & gloom, it’s easy to think that the world sucks, but stories like this are a good reminder that the modern era is the greatest time to be alive in all of human history (so far).

[@supreetsahu1964]

Would be nice if the understanding the language of whales would curb some of humanity's hubris

[@ScienceDiscussed]

It sure would.

[@kelvinlord7192]

1. Love /good intentions/positive regards etc . 2. Logic/reason/critical thinking/honesty etc . 3. Truth/accurate perceptions of relevant realities /very good information ( not misleading information) etc . 1X2X3 etc may help motivate , guide, give meaning , purpose and passion for us to head towards The Greatest Balance Of All That Is Truly Good and in doing so continue to become better version of self ? And conceivably make all natural emotions/ feelings balance with tough love , logic, truth all in a unique way with a unique you . X

[@projectceti]

Thank you Science Discussed for featuring the research of Project CETI!

[@ScienceDiscussed]

Happy to cover such amazing research.

[@bigfrankgaming2423]

Very well made video. You've earned a subscriber!

[@antonionotbanderas9775]

I recently learned about side-channel data. The language mapping sounds like it's using side-channel data to translate 🤯👀

[@NoWay1969]

I'm fascinated by how this kind of AI algorithm could work with something like Neuralink to turn brain waves into words. Dogs and cats don't have much ability to communicate verbally, but they can think and they do try to communicate. I could see a near future where your dog could tell you that it needs to go potty via an implant and a voice synthesizer. Imagine a world where your dog can tell you they're mad at you or that they're glad to see you. Imagine how that would affect dog and cat evolution.

[@ShamusMac]

I often say that people don't break up with their pets explicitly because of their inability to speak.

[@NoWay1969]

There's an idea for a science fiction story someone needs to write. @@ShamusMac

[@preddes6522]

where are my testicles summer?

[@deniseanken]

They already use mapping in button language with dogs and cats, you can already communicate with them

[@deniseanken]

Look up bunny the talking dog

[@tcaDNAp]

No one is talking about how sperm whales could kill someone with sound! That feels like the equivalent of a dragon sneezing and burning everything 😂

[@berniv7375]

Thank you for the video.🌱

[@Natty183]

Omg! I'm so excited! I'd love to learn foreign language vocabulary with maps like these. I'm what Frank Herbert would call a mentat, and this kind of macro-scale pattern development and use to understand the parts of the whole is what my mind does. I just got jealous of the capabilities of AI lol. Anyway, i see this linkng and being consilient with Bejan's Constructal Law and a few other theories across domains that are describing hidden variables and the structural layers of reality akin to and consultant with the experiential knowledge of Taoists and other metaphysical knowledge branches. It's just so f'ing beautiful and honestly, this kind of stuff keeps me alive. Thanks for such an excellent video! 🖖😁

[@MarioNobre65]

Fantastic!

[@kreynolds1123]

I can see a Chat gbt for wales and only wales. But its going to be harder to develop an common way to precieve the world so that we can begine to map one language to the other. Our aspect of our intelegence is an ability to imagine the world through another's perspective. We are going to have to work hard to see the world through a sperm wale's perspective, given sensory input, and observed behavior differences between the sexes and complexity of social interactions.

[@manunitedred8912]

Imagine going to slaughter a cow and it tells you “bro why are trying to kill me “ 😂😂😂😂😂

[@deniseanken]

Interesting they used this in the film arrival where an alien species uses signs that can be read circular... I was just wondering how could we even start to understand an alien species if we cant even understand whales, and here I am...

[@Haagimus]

Fantastic video! Love the content. I remember reading about scientists attempting to use AI to build a codex for whale song. New sub here, but I sub for SSJ Goku first and foremost! Cha La my friend 🤙🏻

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Well both Goku and I are happy that you enjoy our content.

[@MarkReviews]

Turns out Dory just had access to a Beta version of this AI program all along. 😂🐟

[@stfu_mango_baboon]

Lol, me and my 2 cats talk already, they know how to get me up, make them food, let them out, let them in.

[@kreynolds1123]

Chat gbt large language model ethics is challenging. Some times alarming. Shouldn't we consider the potential ethical chalenges of wale chat gbt. Given the life span of sperm wales, it could be more than unfortunate if communication lead to misunderstanding. We need to understand what kind of wale sounds precede agression and mark them black listed.

[@Conan776]

Even if you got WhaleGPT up and running, you'd still have to ask it questions in Whalish. I don't think you can bootstrap this on a fundamental level. And there would still be no way to know whether all you've accomplished is to get a computer to hallucinate that Whalish exists.

[@borisverhaar190]

literally the whole video is about how this tech would connect English with Whalish...

[@GabrielFury-mg8du]

They are already in the early stages of mediated communication with whales. Aza Raskin gave a wonderful talk on this subject earlier this year; "Using AI to Decode Animal Communication with Aza Raskin" is the title of the video on youtube. The Whalish anecdotes are in the latter half of the video. He also touches on the concern of not understanding what the models are telling us to say. The whole subject is completely fascinating

[@YarPirates-vy7iv]

Birds are known to be especially judgemental. They Raven rant about late sleepers, and will even Ostrichize the especially slothful. It's a Cardinal sin among the feathered type.

[@solosailorsv8065]

Seems that dolphins would be far easier to work with and already have a demonstrated language and are easy to train/communicate with. Just try to train a Sperm Whale.... go ahead..Captain Ahab !!

[@lucyy5435]

ich gehe wanderweg hahhahaha

[@ScienceDiscussed]

Haha yes it is a funny mistake.

[@Rosa-lv8yw]

I wonder how quickly the rest of us would become vegan if this were the case.

[@ScienceDiscussed]

Yeah I think it will change a lot of peoples minds.

[@rossmcleod7983]

@@ScienceDiscussednot me. We all have one bad day.

[@borisverhaar190]

Why? sperm whales are carnivores, i don't see this changing anything. I mean we've already communicated with monkeys and parrots and whatever and that did absolutely nothing

[@crow2989]

@@borisverhaar190Yeah. Nature has shown that it has no morals against eating meat. The only reason for anyone in the modern world to have a actual issue with eating meat is either with the factory farming methods which are admittedly brutal. Or faux moral justice. Eating meat makes sense.

[@ct4cf]

Better get YOUR language corrected. Human ARE animals! We are part of Animalia. So when you speak of language between human & animal, you err.

[@congydave]

i just hope it doesn't become weaponised and used for hunting

[@ScienceDiscussed]

This is a genuine concern for some scientists. There js also a concern of accidently doing damage through talking to them and influencing them without meaning to.

[@brytonkalyi277]

`• I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as faith and patience. We should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.

[@LostCommsEntertainment]

*looks in toilet* Oh that's A.I making up its own language again to fit in blanks humanity hasn't.