Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins (arstechnica.com)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 15 Apr 13:58
https://lazysoci.al/post/24693761

cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/24693759

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haverholm@kbin.earth on 15 Apr 14:26 next collapse

FFS, our first verbal contact with nonhuman persons is going to cause a diplomatic crisis 🤦

HurlingDurling@lemm.ee on 15 Apr 17:50 collapse

Something something tarifs, something something antisemitism

haverholm@kbin.earth on 15 Apr 18:45 collapse

Something speciesist Flipper jokes something.

n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 19:22 next collapse

So long and thanks for all the fish

drspod@lemmy.ml on 15 Apr 22:35 next collapse

It’s just going to hallucinate bullshit. Because we have so much training data of conversations between humans and dolphins don’t we?

jarfil@beehaw.org on 16 Apr 04:57 collapse

This group has been studying dolphins since 1985 using a non-invasive approach to track a specific community of Atlantic spotted dolphins. The WDP creates video and audio recordings of dolphins, along with correlating notes on their behaviors.

Just the 40 years, for that specific group of dolphins.

drspod@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 09:12 collapse

So imagine the language model can produce grammatically correct and semantically meaningful dolphin language, how does it translate that to a human language?

The reason LLMs can do this for human languages is that we have an enormous corpus of Rosetta stones for every language that allow the model to correlate concepts in each language. The training data for human to dolphin is going to be just these “behavioural notes.”

So the outcome is that the bullshitting machine will bullshit the scientists that it knows what they’re saying when it’s actually just making stuff up.

It’s a big problem with LLMs that they very rarely answer, “I don’t know.”

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 16 Apr 00:41 collapse

…but dolphins don’t all speak the same language?