[l8_to_catch_up]

Terrible article.

The crucial info that's missing from the article is that they used AI to translate whale language to human, and then from human to whale again.

So there was, in fact, a conversation, mediated by AI; a lot like using Google Translate to talk to a whale.

Wait for a better article on it.

[Mizza]

The paper is linked in the article:

https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ (also has a PDF download)

[JohnMakin]

Ah woops I posted this in the main thread before I saw this comment, thanks

[JohnMakin]

Thank you, I was really hoping this was the case, this is a pet topic of interest of mine.

[debo_]

A pet whale topic?

[fsckboy]

interestingly, it puts us in a room adjacent to that of a famous thought experiment from philosophy, John Searle's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room