Using AI to Decode Animal Communication with Aza Raskin

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  @darkjill2007 · 3 years ago

  So who's going to be the guy that explains factory farming to pigs?

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  @madeinkonada · 3 years ago

  &quot;Sometimes I think our telescopes are pointed the wrong direction. That if we really want to understand that we are not alone, we need to be looking in our oceans and in our backyards &quot;. I was captivated by this whole speech but those last words hit hard. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUXbbbMhvk&amp;t=2935">48:55</a>

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  @craigstewart8123 · 3 years ago

  I’ve dreamed of this day since hearing the National Geographic humpback whale recording in 79. &nbsp;I now look forward to the profound shift in understanding this technology will provide.

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  @eytan-g · 2 years ago (edited)

  IT MIGHT BE useful to collect data from whales or belugas when they have a baby.(Focus on mother/baby pairs) There must be a period when the baby learns to speak the language. That period is almost like a rosetta stone for you to collect data. Imagine it like siting and observing in a classroom when a professor is teaching to a student. The mother must be making all the words with care and showing the meaning at the same time. The mother teaches the baby, simultaneously teaching the AI.

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  @sgramstrup · 3 years ago

  Thank you. Too few realize that we have unlocked an universal translator as seen in scifi movies. Everything that has structure is a language ! We are opening our world to other sentience&apos;s and incredible knowledge all around us..

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  @TheSilentStar · 3 years ago

  Aza Raskin is clearly the right guy to share this with the world, he and the team he is part of deserve Nobel status.

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  @mur02004 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been keeping up with AI developments and this is one of the most incredible things I&apos;ve seen. The idea of mapping two languages based on strength of relationships between words without any sort of rosetta stone is wild and incredibly cool.

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• BA

  @Baalzz302 · 2 years ago

  Why do I get the sense that learning all human languages could unlock something inside our own brains?

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  @saqlainsajid1274 · 3 years ago

  This is the best thing I have seen this year <br>Utter goosebumps <br>Everything is language? It sounds like cosmology, sounds like we as a species have found some new fundamental truth of the universe <br>This killed me <br>I’m pumped

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  @benjaminbeier4036 · 3 years ago

  Amazing talk. It&apos;s been a long time since YouTube recommended such a precious video to me. I hope the algorithm will give it more love and share those words with the world.

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  @tiggerbiggo · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUXbbbMhvk&amp;t=1044">17:24</a> is super super profound to me, it sounds like the dolphins and orcas have come up with a &quot;Lingua Franca&quot; - a type of language constructed by traders who do not speak each other&apos;s languages to communicate to facilitate trade. They have literally come up with a new language purely to facilitate hunting together, one that neither group speaks to their own kin. Beyond incredible work!

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  @slapsmcgee8434 · 3 years ago

  Everything isn’t language, everything is a pattern. We aren’t social creatures, we’re pattern recognition machines. Language is just another pattern we play around with. I’ve dreamed of AI getting this good since I was a kid and I’m more than excited.

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