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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days ago

We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?

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We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?

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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days ago
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AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise
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  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      There was some stand up comedian who had a joke about how all dogs are basically just yelling “FUCK! FUCK!” All the time. There isn’t really a bark that means “everything’s chill”

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwwgsZg4D_s

      • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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        I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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        • yt.artemislena.eu
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    No we’re not lol

    This AI shit is going to cause me to lose my sanity

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      yeah but it will generate something relatively coherent and people will certainly interpret it that way

      anyway check out this video of my cat staring out a window - it has that look on its face with its eyes half-closed because I told it that it’s in timeout, and not just because it’s sitting in the warm sun looking out a window

      pain

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        i can translate anything a whale or any other animal says for a fee

        good luck proving my translations false

        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          The Pet Psychic did that and got a successful show on Animal Planet in the 00’s so it’s a good strategy

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            It is kind of amazing how the AI grift is rapidly going into the territory of every other grift at this point, I can’t think of a common grift that someone hasn’t tried to shove AI into.

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    excited for when we get livestock pleading for help and people just ignore it

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      Pain. Pain. Pain. Pain.

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        That was a hell of a doctor who episode

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    ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 44% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 43% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 42% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 41% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 40% capacity. Action required.

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      speech-top

      kitty-cri-screm

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    AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak

    doubt

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    The first whales they translate are chud whales so we learn about whale racism and assume it’s normal for whalekind.

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      Grok AI: the whales are singing “kill the Boer” actually

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      White Whale

      kelly

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    Whales seem to have vocalizations that follow the same complexities as human speech. I doubt most animals are capable of something as complex as that. Their research has been extremely promising, they even figured out how to call a wild whale to a research vessel to talk, and the whale circled the vessel and tried to speak to it more.

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      The whale protracted people’s war nears ever closer.

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    we’ll get extremely depressed

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    anakin-padme-2 so we can reckon with over a century of cruel treatment and make their lives more comfortable, right?

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      so we can train them and use them to make rich people richer!

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    I bet cats have some wild slurs

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      That one weird bellowing howl my cat does when he’s in the hallway alone is definitely some sort of swear

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    The AI bubble will finally pop when someone convinces investors that they can teach rats to code.

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      They already did, we call em techbros

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      My new start up puts a million rats on keyboards and our proprietary AI that runs off a coal power plant the size of a city translates it into code! Play our new rat-made idle game with cute rat cosmetics we stole off deviantart!

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        proprietary AI that runs off a coal power plant the size of a city translates it into code!

        Is there anyway to scam the investors so they think that’s what’s happening but we don’t actually have any of the shit that destroys the planet?

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          Ai generated pictures of the city-reactor

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    Animals: DON’T TRUST THE MUSHROOMS! KILL THEM ALL! KILLLL TTHHEEMMM AAALLLLL!!!

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    Being able to define a grammar is a far cry from actually being able to assign meaning to individual sequences. Yeah, okay, they taught dolphins a word for “sargasso” but can you especially jump to someone’s potato receiver arguably above an itemized “sargasso” but anything personable or are you just playing dolphin Mad Libs?

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    We hunt the non-vegans. (In a respectful way and make sure to use all their parts)

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    Some indigenous groups believe they can already at the very least speak to animals with their native languages. It unfortunately doesn’t mean they can understand the animals.

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