Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? | David Gruber | TED

When we learn to communicate I imagine they tell us we are the worst and that the aliens from millions of years ago were more cordial and considerate

언젠가 고래 유치원을 여는 날이 오기를!

He said they are going to try this on primates and other animals. I wonder why they are trying to speak to sperm whales first with them being so hard to record

This “dude” is either wearing a mask/heavy makeup or this is really good robotics/AI. His face and movements are not natural at all

Maybe they can figure out a way to get my Dad to talk to me

We have been communicating with the apes. KOKO Use sign language to communicate sentences and intention and emotion.

its unlikely you'd get a good reply if you try to say "hello, how are you feeling today?". I don't think other creatures communicate in exactly the same way as us, they don't live in human world and human lifestyle or human nature. but they might have a signal for "greetings", and you might get a "greetings!" back.
They might have things that evaluate to things like "I am over here", "come here", "go", "help", "up", "down", "come together", "food", "safe", "danger", "run away" etc. But it's also a question of how would the young learn those signals? E.g- birds have various signals, but there are no bird schools.
but I don't know how complex their communication ideas get. It might depend on the world and lifestyle they live in.

the are not sending words as we do/they are sending pictures

Too much talk!

Fantastic project, I wish you achieve what you dream of and beyond!

So exciting!!!

I wish you luck, but think the Project CETI approach has very little chance of working based on the diagram of what CETI thinks it's goals are, skeptical this label approach makes sense, and even if it does skeptical transformer networks are going to do anything except be misleading.

eg. Try this for a fun exercise, record tupac lyrics in Silbo Gomero, transmit it over a 56k modem, record the sound that modem makes during transmission. Give this audio file to your head data scientist and ask them to use any enc/dec network technique they want to make sense of it, should be easy, its human speech in bog standard grammar....

Learning languages of animal is a whole new potential subject this will produce a new big living society that will include different animal species. One can imagine what the world would be.

If you can crack this you deserve a noble prize

Four more years till the research is complete baby.
I am super excited

I'm all for saving whales and protecting them, but all I can think about is Will Ferrell impersonating this guy on a SNL skit, glasses and all!

This guy seems like he would say something about the sperm whales re-affirming the chosen ones deserving Israel based upon their own peoples writings😂🧐 typical masochistic J saying a whale is smarter than humans… well the average man is not a multinational conglomeration of evil, the common man is good and wants good for his people… his intentions of course are hijacked by the nefarious goblins running the show

Go vegan!

Project CETI is going faster than ever now with the recent advancements in AI

Is this guy Jewish / gay

Codas may transmit thoughts through water. The assumption seems to be that there must be a thought process that is broken down into verbalised sounds which are then decoded and part of the though understood.
However, when I indicate that I'm hungry; by saying "I'm a bit Peckish", only a tiny part of my thought process has been transferred to the recipients. I might well be thinking about my favourite dish, when I last had it, what it tasted like, how easy would it be to make it, etc etc. The recipient might think. "what, hungry again!" - they understand that I've said that I'm hungry, that's all really. Our communication is very linear, focused, précis and limited.
What if whales think, and then send their entire thought processes to each other? They probably don't have names as we understand names, but an address and probably coordinates. They probably also employ some form of natural encryption.
They may actually be 'reading' other whales minds..
Machine learning will undoubtedly fail as long as it's based on learning a 'language'.

The real breakthroughs will come from musicians.
Forget language, think; thoughts.

Thank you so, so, so much for your research. With the critical states our oceans are in, this is exactly the kind of research the world needs. I will definitely be following your research. You guys are phenomenal. Thank you.

Could african click language be altered to connduct whale vocabulary?

Grubers motivation? knowledge to enlighten all or manipulation, possession and profit.

It’s crazy the clicks are so loud they can kill you

Could a quantum computing help teach us to talk to sperm whales?

I would like to have an update on this

click click click -whale

Maybe if we learn to communicate with whales and dolphins,
we can hire them to help us like keeping sharks off from beaches.

I’m not apologizing for the crimes of my species

The day we can communicate with cetaceans, I hope they will be able to forgive humans for what we did to them, and are still doing to them (looking at you Japan, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands).

My Chihuahuas very interested in the sounds of the mighty sperm whale so is his son that's a half Chihuahua

I happen to think they're likely more intelligent than we are.

Just think if we establish communications and all they have to say is “So long and thanks for all the fish”.

Don’t they do that clicking to gauge your frequency ? So they can echo location - visualize you?

It's a question of what we say to them really and what they say to us.
If it is aliens we know we 're going to start with the sequence of prime numbers and take it on from there - in a few days or weeks the aliens will read Shakespear.
Also the other way round. The alien will start with the sequence of prime numbers and after a while we will learn the works of their Shakespear.
It does n't matter if they have higher IQ or if they have IQ lower than ours, it will work.

Imagine we meet somebody from a faraway land.
He wants us to make him a sandwich and he says "glink glonk" which of course means "I 'm famished, I 'd like a sandwich please" in his language.
We won't understand a word but after a few trials we know - glink glonk is the sandwich.

But with the whale ?
What are common items of interest so they learn from us or we learn from them ?
If we solve this problem, then the rest is easy.

This is easily more interesting than space travel and where I think we should be focusing our scientific efforts.

I’m telling them it was the Japanese, Icelanders, and northern Tribes.

This is amazing work, excited to see it progress.

NOICE

What if we don't need technology to understand sperm whale communication, but can innately understand it?

Can any one summarize it to me please

This it’s amazing! But in the meantime we should protect them, because some countries allow companies to keep hunting them 🧐

Yeah! This talk provided me with enough motivation to study for my Statistics and Signal processing paper this semester.

in a way, its dangerous. what if we told them that we used to and still killing them to get a oil from whales, we dont know how they would react

No...

Hi mr.Whale I'm your fans

Gruber? Really? What...like hans gruber? It was the larry smith ted talk that gave you guys away. Stick to science, not smearing.

I want to use this technology to communicate with orcas.

Sophisticated? Probably not. Incredible? Absolutely.