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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)

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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.

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[-] balder1991@lemmy.world 110 points 8 months ago

Not only did the AI predict elements of whale vocalizations already thought to be meaningful, such as clicks, but it also singled out acoustic properties.

This is an amazing use of machine learning models.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 65 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can’t wait for them to tell us to stop being fuckheads and ruining the planet

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 34 points 8 months ago

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago

"end capitalism"

[-] voluble@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

NOC's vocalizations were recorded and studied by a team of biologists from the National Marine Mammal Foundation (NMMF) led by Sam Ridgway. In 1984, Ridgway and others at the NMMF began to hear peculiar sounds coming from the whale and dolphin enclosure. They were reminiscent of two people talking in the distance, the words just beyond the limit of comprehension.[5] Later, a diver working in the enclosure came to the surface after he heard someone cry "out, out, out!"[1] After he asked his colleagues "Who told me to get out?", they realized it had been NOC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOC_(whale)

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That was a trip.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 points 8 months ago

"the whales are communists, kill them all"

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

we already are lol

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Orcas seem to have already started.

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