This is insane, and one of the coolest AI stories I've read in a while.
Thanks to GANs, we might be this close to decoding an alien language. Except, we need not look to the stars (this time), but rather, the ocean.
Project CETI fed thousands of sperm whale clicks into generative adversarial networks and the patterns the model surfaced are kind of mind melting.
Sperm whales have vowels. Real ones. Two distinct, intentional vowel sounds called a-codas and i-codas.
And here's the part I can't get over: they also use diphthongs. Wth is a diphthong?
These are the combinations of two vowels, like the 'oi' in 'coin.' Or 'ei' in 'their.' We've never confirmed that in any species other than humans.
The new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society lays out five features in whale codas that mirror human phonology, including coarticulation, where adjacent sounds blend into each other the same way they do when we talk.
For decades we thought whale clicks were basically morse code. Turns out they *might* have been speaking the whole time. We just weren't slowing down enough to listen.
We have also discovered mathematical repetition in their songs as though they are singing the same lullaby to their children. Wut.
Can you just imagine if thanks to AI, we could actually communicate with other intelligent species right here on our own planet?
The ramifications are truly monumental. What if we learn they are truly conscious and aware in a similar manner to us? There's reasons to believe they are.
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Pinuccio Sciola creía que las piedras no son materia muerta, sino que guardan la memoria del tiempo y del universo. Para "liberar" su sonido, el artista realizaba cortes geométricos profundos y precisos en bloques de basalto (de origen volcánico) o piedra caliza.
Esto si es arte!
We are back. After one year of quiet building.
Introducing GENE-26.5, our first robotic brain that takes a major step toward human-level capability.
For years, robotics has struggled to learn from the world’s largest and valuable data source: Humans.
Solving it means rethinking the whole stack from the ground up:
- A robotics-native foundation model.
- A 1:1 human-like robotic hand.
- A noninvasive data collection glove for motion, force, and touch.
- A simulator that turns weeks of experiments into minutes.
GENE-26.5 is trained across language, vision, proprioception, tactile, and action. We designed a set of tasks to test how far we can go with this new paradigm.
Fully autonomous, 1x speed, one model, same weights. (Enjoy with sound on)
We are approaching the endgame for robotics.
And this is just a beginning.
This is a Mindset MUST-watch.
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We can become exactly who we want to become.
We can control our thoughts.
We can control our mind.
We can make that 8-year version of us proud!
Having this perspective at age 22 is just awesome. 🥇
Alguien fumó DMT con una pipa hecha de hueso de puma en una cueva a 12.600 pies de altura en los Andes argentinos.
En el año 2130 a.C.
Esa es la evidencia confirmada más antigua del uso de psicodélicos en la Tierra.
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