Imagine youre a whale.
No, not a person who holds vast amounts of cryptocurrency.
An actual whale swimming in the ocean.
you’ve got the option to think of it as a leadership or creative-thinking experiment if it helps.
Youre swimming along and chatting with your pod as you do whale stuff.
Everything is pretty much the same way its been for about 45 million years.
And then suddenly a robot starts talking to you in your own language.
Youre probably unaware that its a robot.
I mean, its not like you know what artificial intelligence is or how underwater speakers work.
Youd have to think it was… ghosts?
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There are huge implications for this and most of them arent really about becoming best friends with whales.
A rising tide lifts all vessels.
Scientists could uncover new ideas about human language by comparing how we communicate to how whales do.
But such knowledge would require us to formulate a sort of Rosetta Stone for whale language.
Over time, the team will have to label their data manually through observation of whale behavior.
But, I mean, how are the whales going to interpret this?
Sperm whales dive down deep where they cant see each other.
What happens when we start adding noise to their language?
Maybe the whales will instantly recognize the aberrant voice as something unlike them and ignore it.
But what if they believe it?
Im not an expert on whales.
And, to be honest, I think its worth the risk.
Without regulation, AI researchers and entrepreneurs are pretty much free to do whatever they want.
So ultimately it doesnt matter whether youre a human or a whale.
