This 50 minute podcast episode is just mind-blowing. With AI we may soon be able to translate between animal 'languages'. But should we? Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence:
Chris talks to Aza Raskin, co-founder of Earth Species Project and Karen Bakker, a professor at the University of British Columbia, about animal communication and the pros and cons of the latest AI technology.
Dispatches From The Empire the predominant feeling of being a human in our current epoch: “But should we? Well, it doesn’t matter — we’re going to anyway.”
Donny C This reminds me of something from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s (the real one, not the fictional one currently in theaters) prison letters: “It impressed me once that Mrs. von Kleist-Kieckow told me with real horror of a film in which the growth of a plant was portrayed with time-lapse photography; she and her husband were unable to bear that as an illegitimate prying into the mystery of life.”
Jim Rain @dispatchesfrom Exactly right. I'm putting this in my Commonplace Book. (With proper attribution, of course!)
Miraz Jordan @tinyroofnail Oh. Not sure what I think of that… On the podcast they had a discussion about the ethics of humans prying into animal communication. That was very interesting.