Fwd: NYTimes.com: How to Talk to Whales

[Jeff Titon]

A project to decode sperm whale click “language," using AI. 

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From: Jeff Titon <jeff_...@brown.edu>

Subject: NYTimes.com: How to Talk to Whales

Date: November 23, 2025 at 10:07:19 AM EST

To: Jeff Titon <jti...@myfairpoint.net>

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

How to Talk to Whales

This is not your average chatbot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/whale-language-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.jf9i.NPBirEMI1MLZ&smid=em-share

There is also a link to the scientific report on which this story is based, here (open source):

https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/OPMI.a.252/133906/Vowel-and-Diphthong-Like-Spectral-Patterns-in

Best to all,

Jeff