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Re:Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then ... by thaumasiotes on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:06PM (#29061354)
> Whales have the capability to far outstrip humans in intelligence (if you accept that neuron count and neuron connections are the raw inputs).

Understood normally, the raw input also includes the software installed in the whale's brain. This limits the potential capability of whales.

If you were to overwrite that with software of your own design, you'd have a robot in the body of a whale, but not an actual whale.

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Re:Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:39AM (#29063047)
There's no software in a whale's brain, or in a human's brain.

As has been discussed in a couple of articles linked on HN recently, it might not even be useful to think about brain function as computation.

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Re:Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then ... by thaumasiotes on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:45AM (#29063083)
> There's no software in a whale's brain, or in a human's brain.

Sure, and man is the only animal with no instincts, ensouled cells are metaphysically different from soulless cells, and fossils were placed in the ground as a test of your faith.

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