• enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, the headline is definitely sensationalist. The article doesn’t even go in to the current state of research.

    I recall reading a few years ago that at the very least, we know that dolphins vocalize to each other with consistent sounds (basically names) and also use consistent sounds when playing with found objects.

    But yeah, that article is really lazy journalism which is basically saying we’re applying ML to dolphin vocalisation patterns… which… we’ve been doing for years and years before LLMs were a thing.

    It doesn’t at all go in to what has changed in applying new ML techniques, which IMO would actually make for quite an interesting article.