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Re:AI's energy footprint by GuB-42 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @06:53AM (#44050139)
Not sure about understanding, but anyone can use a LLM. That is the most intuitive way to interact with a computer and that's the entire point. It may even work on animals. There is serious research on how LLMs could interpret animal language, like with dolphins.
Re:AI's energy footprint by FollowingTheDao on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:51AM (#44052108)
> It may even work on animals. There is serious research on how LLMs could interpret animal language, like with dolphins.

This is one of the more hysterical things I have heard.

How would we even know it was translating animal language correctly?

Re:AI's energy footprint by haiku2077 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:56AM (#44052154)
Here, read the blog post. The LLM isn't running inside of a blackbox, it's a tool used as part of behavioral research with real animals https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/