In an unprecedented encounter, a research team successfully engaged in a “conversation” with a humpback whale named Twain.
The team, known as Whale-SETI, has been conducting research on humpback whale communication systems, aiming to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial life.
Dory’s conversation was whale longer.
What’d they talk about
it wasn’t exactly a conversation, it was an exchange of noises. this is also old news.
I mean, that’s great and all, but isn’t it the equivalent of “who’s a good boy?” with your pooch?
‘Hey Twain!’ … 20 min later, Twain: ‘fuck off’
They floated some ideas his way.
They discussed seal level rise. (Not a typo).
Am i missing the transcript or have these stories about ‘conversing’ shown little more ‘conversation’ than a bird call or the like? Imitating what we assume are mating calls to horny spermies?
Hope the research team gave the whale some super yacht coordinates.
Omg can they put in a good word about me? xx
If the scientists were, in fact, using a humpback whale language, they were probably uttering total nonsensical bullshit. The whale was probably thinking, “What did this asshole just say he wants to do to my mother?!?!”
The way the article abruptly ended gave me a lingering sense that it was mostly written with AI. Not too bothered by it but it just seemed uncanny.
This is happy news.
This is the whale version of meowing to your cat.
He wanted to Make Whales Great Again.
All this without a Vulcan mindmeld!
Good grief, these scientists are so dumb—everyone knows he pronounces it T-Wain.
Lori already did this.
Cmon, we need to learn their language before they show up in their tube spaceships, disabling all our electronics on the planet!!
Imagine being the whale, thinking ” ohhh this one sounds sexy! wanna meet her! hey gurl, where are u? I can hear you! stop hiding! …..stupid bitch, I’m leaving.”
“Have you heard the one about the penguin and his mechanic?”
The conversation would have lasted longer, but the scientists brought up politics. The whale said something about making the ocean great again. At that point, the scientists realized they were wasting their time talking to one of the “slow” whales.
Whales live in a completely different world. One that is largely made up of transparent 3D images. Dolphins, for example, are often very interested in the unborn baby in a pregnant woman’s womb.
I think that might make it difficult to find a common denominator.
For a whale, a “fish” is a skelleton with several layers of fat, tissue and organs. For us, it is the torpedo-shaped, silvery body. They live in a world of different densities, we live in a world of surfaces.
This is one of the areas where AI translation could probably come in very handy, because computers do not have a subjective view of the world.
Whale said there’s a probe coming by in about 250 years so we need to stop fucking with them.
Darmok on the ocean, Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Pretty sure we have a happy whale out there now who just published his paper on human communication theory.
They are using the similar AI models used for language translation and feed it English and Whales songs in the hope to be able to communicate.
These models are fed English and Spanish (not translations), and learn to translate by identifying relationships between words at a very large scale. The need more songs. They chosen Whales due to the variety in their songs.
Did the whale tell them its name was Twain? Or did they name the whale Twain?
Now Twain I can get into
Named himself did he?
> Drawing parallels to studying Antarctica as a proxy for Mars, the Whale-SETI team is utilizing their findings from the study of intelligent, terrestrial, non-human communication systems to develop filters that can be applied to any potential extraterrestrial signals received.
My guys were like “What if Star Trek IV, but real”
The whale was heard to respond “Aw man. Spock died”
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In an unprecedented encounter, a research team successfully engaged in a “conversation” with a humpback whale named Twain.
The team, known as Whale-SETI, has been conducting research on humpback whale communication systems, aiming to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial life.
Dory’s conversation was whale longer.
What’d they talk about
it wasn’t exactly a conversation, it was an exchange of noises. this is also old news.
I mean, that’s great and all, but isn’t it the equivalent of “who’s a good boy?” with your pooch?
‘Hey Twain!’ … 20 min later, Twain: ‘fuck off’
They floated some ideas his way.
They discussed seal level rise. (Not a typo).
Am i missing the transcript or have these stories about ‘conversing’ shown little more ‘conversation’ than a bird call or the like? Imitating what we assume are mating calls to horny spermies?
Hope the research team gave the whale some super yacht coordinates.
Omg can they put in a good word about me? xx
If the scientists were, in fact, using a humpback whale language, they were probably uttering total nonsensical bullshit. The whale was probably thinking, “What did this asshole just say he wants to do to my mother?!?!”
The way the article abruptly ended gave me a lingering sense that it was mostly written with AI. Not too bothered by it but it just seemed uncanny.
This is happy news.
This is the whale version of meowing to your cat.
He wanted to Make Whales Great Again.
All this without a Vulcan mindmeld!
Good grief, these scientists are so dumb—everyone knows he pronounces it T-Wain.
Lori already did this.
Cmon, we need to learn their language before they show up in their tube spaceships, disabling all our electronics on the planet!!
Imagine being the whale, thinking ” ohhh this one sounds sexy! wanna meet her! hey gurl, where are u? I can hear you! stop hiding! …..stupid bitch, I’m leaving.”
“Have you heard the one about the penguin and his mechanic?”
The conversation would have lasted longer, but the scientists brought up politics. The whale said something about making the ocean great again. At that point, the scientists realized they were wasting their time talking to one of the “slow” whales.
Whales live in a completely different world. One that is largely made up of transparent 3D images. Dolphins, for example, are often very interested in the unborn baby in a pregnant woman’s womb.
I think that might make it difficult to find a common denominator.
For a whale, a “fish” is a skelleton with several layers of fat, tissue and organs. For us, it is the torpedo-shaped, silvery body. They live in a world of different densities, we live in a world of surfaces.
This is one of the areas where AI translation could probably come in very handy, because computers do not have a subjective view of the world.
Whale said there’s a probe coming by in about 250 years so we need to stop fucking with them.
Darmok on the ocean, Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Pretty sure we have a happy whale out there now who just published his paper on human communication theory.
They are using the similar AI models used for language translation and feed it English and Whales songs in the hope to be able to communicate.
These models are fed English and Spanish (not translations), and learn to translate by identifying relationships between words at a very large scale. The need more songs. They chosen Whales due to the variety in their songs.
Did the whale tell them its name was Twain? Or did they name the whale Twain?
Now Twain I can get into
Named himself did he?
> Drawing parallels to studying Antarctica as a proxy for Mars, the Whale-SETI team is utilizing their findings from the study of intelligent, terrestrial, non-human communication systems to develop filters that can be applied to any potential extraterrestrial signals received.
My guys were like “What if Star Trek IV, but real”
The whale was heard to respond “Aw man. Spock died”
Team: What was that flying orb object?
Whale: Weather Balloon
“Now Twain I can get into.”