DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

Posted by alphabetting 4/14/2025

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication(blog.google)

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givemeethekeys 4/15/2025|

"Lies Dolphins Said About Orcas" - the tell-all book about how Orcas went extinct /s

rcarmo 4/14/2025||

The only output I'll believe from this is "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

rcarmo 4/14/2025|

I guess Douglas Adams isn't something a lot of people read these days.

linotype 4/15/2025||

I got the reference and appreciate it. What a fantastic set of books.

rambambram 4/14/2025||

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GuinansEyebrows 4/14/2025||

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bigdatajs 4/15/2025||

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nightfly 4/14/2025||

"Matthews... we're getting another one of those strange 'aw blah es span yol' sounds."

xena 4/14/2025||

This looks like a marine biologist desperately wanted to keep their job in spite of the "nothing that's not AI" mandate so they made up some bullshit.

vlovich123 4/14/2025||

They’ve been working on decoding dolphin sounds for a long time - Thad was telling me about this project in 2015 and it had been ongoing for a while. One challenge is doing this realtime is extremely difficult because of the frequency the dolphin speech occurs in. And they want to do this realtime which adds to the difficulty level. The other challenge on the AI side is that traditional AI is done using supervised learning whereas dolphin speech would require unsupervised learning. It would be interesting to learn more about how Gemma is helping here.

Philpax 4/14/2025||

That is a surprisingly cynical take; the marine biologists in question seemed pretty enthusiastic in the video!

dogleash 4/14/2025||

I'm not saying this is the case here, but every time I've been in internal or promotional videos related to my work, I've been performing for a camera. I'm not playing a theater character, but it's also not what you'd get if you dropped by my desk and asked me the same questions. Calling it acting might seem strong. But it's not not acting. So it's acting.

refulgentis 4/14/2025||

Does the general principle "we're always performing, in a particular costume, for our audience" help confirm the excited marine biologist desperately wanted to keep their job in spite of a "nothing that's not AI" mandate, so they made up some bullshit?

Separately, could invoking it anytime someone appears excited be described as distrustful of human sincerity or integrity?

After working through these exercises, my answers are no/yes, which leaves me having to agree its clearly cynical. (because "define:cynical" returns "distrustful of human sincerity or integrity")

palashkulsh 4/14/2025|

Was I the only one who thought it was related to dolphin uncensored models over gemma