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.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

Hell yeah, I hope it works for orcas too so I can thank the ones that have been trashing the yachts.

So what I'm hearing is they can literally talk to each other in a way that we do and we still kill them constantly.

This is big news! We've got a lemmy community specifically about Digital Bioacoustics (technology and animal communication) for anyone interested.

!digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world

Https://Lemmy.world/c/digitalbioacoustics

Oooh, look! The translation's coming through!!

Thanks... for... all... the...

...

For what? Thanks for all the what?!

“I wish I could speak whale!” - Dory

"So Long, and thanks for all the fish"

They probably have nothing interesting to say anyway. After a year or two all the scientists will be like "I fucking know you like krill, whale. Shut the fuck up about the krill already".

What they're saying is: "All shall perish" as they proceed to kill people and smash yachts.

Gracie is pregnant.

So just fucking say what it is! We know they're intelligent. Just tell us how they all think we're running the planet.

"Who turned up the heat?"

If complete mutually intelligible communication of complex ideas with another species is undeniably proven, that will be a massive boon for veganism(although of course not all animals are equal), and a legal quagmire. What do you do if they are suffering in ways that we can fix due to their environment? Like humans were, and then we changed our environment. Do you give whales weapons so they can defend themselves from orcas? Do you shoot whale pochers? Do you shoot orcas attacking whales? Do you farm krill for them to eat? Do you drastically alter the ocean surface to be more comfortable for whales?

After all, most people recognize it as good to alter a person's natural state(hunting and gathering from caves) for the better, so would that not be the same for animals that are considered essentially people or near-people?

Just in time for them to go extinct. It’ll be helpful in a few hundred years though when we need to travel back in time again.