The Challenges of Animal Translation

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-challenges-of-animal-translation

by Hooke • 5 years ago

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neonate• 5 years ago

erichahn• 5 years ago

"Denise Herzing, the founder and research director of the nonprofit Wild Dolphin Project, which studies dolphins in the Atlantic, is now using similar algorithms, coupled with underwater keyboards and computers, to try to decode dolphin"

- Why does she need underwater computers?

pvaldes• 5 years ago

Stationary sample points or hydrophones need software to filter and record the noise. Everything is a computer now.

twic• 5 years ago

Dolphins love overclocking.

failwhaleshark• 5 years ago

And, they have a tendency to eat all of the babelfish rather than listen to them. (I can't blame them.)

lacker• 5 years ago

In giving such persuasively nonhuman animals human personalities and thoughts, the film created a kind of cognitive dissonance. It had been easier to imagine the interiority of the stylized beasts in the original film.

This sounds like the "uncanny valley", but for talking animals. A talking cartoon animal is just a cartoon. A talking animal that looks realistic is creepy.

The Challenges of Animal Translation

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