Current Events > Scientists: Dolphin language could be translated by 2021

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://futurism.com/the-language-of-dolphins-could-be-translated-by-2021/

Swedish startup Gavagai AB, a language technology company that originated at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has mastered 40 human languages with its language analysis software. Now, researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology are teaming up with Gavagai AB to take on the language of dolphins, in a project undoubtedly focused as much on testing and expanding the systems capabilities as deciphering the thoughts of dolphins.

The team will monitor bottlenose dolphins in a wildlife park and use Gavagais artificial intelligence (AI) language analysis technology to decode the sounds and, if all goes according to plan, compile a dictionary of dolphin language. The team is confident that theyll be able to do this, thanks not only to the AI capabilities of the Gavagai AB system, but also to the availability of more dolphin data, larger computational resources, and newer recording methods.

We hope to be able to understand dolphins with the help of artificial intelligence technology, KTH adjunct professor and Gavagai co-founder Jussi Karlgren said in an interview with Bloomberg. We know that dolphins have a complex communication system, but we dont know what they are talking about yet.

---

I wonder what God will say about this
---

What would a dolphin even have to say.

"i see the fish. i like the fish."
---

Ugh I love Sweden!
---

Ivynn posted...

What would a dolphin even have to say.

"i see the fish. i like the fish."

maybe they have their own religion and they will spread it us and stop all wars

& hoth still won't hear the sweet nothings he yearns.

Dolphins and AI working together can only end in the extinction of all human life. Someone needs to stop this.
---

http://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-pacific-council/
---

Dolphin: There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign. Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh... you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance; incapable of understanding. "Dolphin"... a label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant... we simply "are".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XneLZgdzSI" data-time="

Vid if you don't know where this is from.

I really, really, really, like super really hope the dolphins communicate like how Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson predicted.
---

Considering how we've treated the ocean I don't think they'll have very nice things to say.
---

Ivynn posted...

What would a dolphin even have to say.

"i see the fish. i like the fish."

Lmao!
---

"Pass the pufferfish"
"Shark spotted, let's go bully it"
"Anybody want some fuck?"

Stuff like that.
---

I doubt it'll be coherent sentences. Mostly stuff like "this makes me happy", "this is tasty", "I am mad".
---

Ki_cat_ posted...

I doubt it'll be coherent sentences. Mostly stuff like "this makes me happy", "this is tasty", "I am mad".

It will be coherent because it's a human designed algorithm that will translate it into something that people can understand.
---

This is the silliest thing I've read all day.
---

So long and thanks for all the fish.
---

"I'll have what the dog is having."
---

bump for morning CE


---

yay : D
---

Very exciting possibility. Also kind of sobering, really. At what point do you consider an animal more than just that?
---

final bump, for overnight CE

---

---

I wonder what a dolphin would say if it was raping someone honestly
---

I just imagined a future where we've colonized our oceans because global warming flooded most of the world.

In this future, the ocean police force would have dolphins instead of German Shepherds. And the dolphins would ride shotgun in the patrol subs and they'll have a dolphin translator machine in each sub, and the dolphin officer and human officer will exchange small talk about that bitch in HDR.
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32S2oJuANxo" data-time="
---

COVxy posted...

This is the silliest thing I've read all day.

We already taught a gorilla sign language and managed to have full conversations with it. This isn't that crazy.
---

Ivynn posted...

What would a dolphin even have to say.

"i see the fish. i like the fish."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dUmDBfp6k" data-time="
---

How crazy would it be if we started talking to them, and they told us about how they used to live on land and had a super advanced civilization technologically, and then they realized how much better living in the ocean is than on the surface so they all collectively decided to alter their DNA to have fins and be able to hold their breath an extremely long to to be able to live under water.

They would think of us as stupid land dwellers who are unsophisticated idiots and just laugh at us. They probably solved string theory already.

What if they started negotiating with us for mathematical and scientific knowledge?
---

Why
---

One step closer to SeaQuest.
---

Hey hey hey hey hey hey look hey hey hey fish hey hey hey fish look fish hey hey
---

Howl posted...

How crazy would it be if we started talking to them, and they told us about how they used to live on land and had a super advanced civilization technologically, and then they realized how much better living in the ocean is than on the surface so they all collectively decided to alter their DNA to have fins and be able to hold their breath an extremely long to to be able to live under water.

They would think of us as stupid land dwellers who are unsophisticated idiots and just laugh at us. They probably solved string theory already.

What if they started negotiating with us for mathematical and scientific knowledge?

if that were true, i imagine they wouldnt want to negotiate at all given how badly we've fucked up their new home.
---

Howl posted...

How crazy would it be if we started talking to them, and they told us about how they used to live on land and had a super advanced civilization technologically, and then they realized how much better living in the ocean is than on the surface so they all collectively decided to alter their DNA to have fins and be able to hold their breath an extremely long to to be able to live under water.

They would think of us as stupid land dwellers who are unsophisticated idiots and just laugh at us. They probably solved string theory already.

What if they started negotiating with us for mathematical and scientific knowledge?

Yeah, but how do heat up their hot pockets if they live underwater. Not to mention, I bet it gets soggy. If anything, I laugh at them and their soggy bread.

MwarriorHiei posted...

Howl posted...

How crazy would it be if we started talking to them, and they told us about how they used to live on land and had a super advanced civilization technologically, and then they realized how much better living in the ocean is than on the surface so they all collectively decided to alter their DNA to have fins and be able to hold their breath an extremely long to to be able to live under water.

They would think of us as stupid land dwellers who are unsophisticated idiots and just laugh at us. They probably solved string theory already.

What if they started negotiating with us for mathematical and scientific knowledge?

if that were true, i imagine they wouldnt want to negotiate at all given how badly we've fucked up their new home.

I would imagine us not polluting the oceans anymore would be their prime objective.
---

Rimmer_Dall posted...

COVxy posted...

This is the silliest thing I've read all day.

We already taught a gorilla sign language and managed to have full conversations with it. This isn't that crazy.

Kokos abilities were vastly overstated if not outright falsified
---

Yeah, Koko was BS.

Rimmer_Dall posted...

COVxy posted...

This is the silliest thing I've read all day.

We already taught a gorilla sign language and managed to have full conversations with it. This isn't that crazy.

This is not about teaching dolphins language (not that this was particularly successful in gorillas), but "translating dolphin language". First, this assumes that dolphins communicate using something akin to language, and then on top of that assumes we have the labels for that language! You can't do supervised learning without labels.

It's just one of these really out there claims. It doesn't make much sense.
---

Good, maybe Ed Anuniziata (botching his last name probably) can finally get with Sega to make a proper sequel to Ecco: The Tides of Time
---

But this is an awful thing for you, @WilliamPorygon because now the dolphins can say no.
---

don't dolphins rape penguins

do we really need to know what they're saying?

SavenForever posted...

Good, maybe Ed Anuniziata (botching his last name probably) can finally get with Sega to make a proper sequel to Ecco: The Tides of Time

So I'm not the only one who still has hope for this.
---

Kaiganeer posted...

don't dolphins rape penguins

do we really need to know what they're saying?

They rape humans too. We might need to know what they are saying just in case they take over the world.
---

With this technology we'll finally be able to teach dolphins not to rape.
---