Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not be speaking
Whales use complicated communication methods we nonetheless don’t perceive, a trope exploited in sci-fi exhibits like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That present featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) discussing Mahler’s symphonies with a human researcher by way of some AI-powered inter-species translation app developed in 2046. We’re a good distance from that future. However … Read more
