• Madlaine@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I doubt we are far enough to train ai for animal-human translation on more than a conceptual level, and I doubt that I would hear about it from dolphins for the first time.

    I expect a widely covered story of translating dogs’ barks (or cats) first, and not in a “Hello Human, Welcome back home, I missed you. Please give me food” way (which would be probably fake) but just “Friend! Joy. Hungry”

    And I don’t know how we could scientifcally differentiate a slur from a descriptive name on that conceptual level.

    What I don’t doubt is that dolphins have slurs for humans.

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        9 months ago

        I kinda think you might be right. If you have an animal that has nouns wouldn’t one of those nouns be for the biologists that keep hanging around it and interacting?

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      9 months ago

      Can already kind of do that with dogs. They’re like a Twister board with big buttons the dogs can push. As you say, not whole sentences but “human, leave, dog, sad” is essentially them learning our language.