LLM are connecting all terrestrial intelligence

[Stuart LaForge]

In Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" the babelfish are
small fish that when placed in ones ear, translated all languages for
the wearer. Amazingly over the past few years, LLM have been used to
used like Babelfish or a universal translator between several of the
most intelligent species on Earth. In the past year, the scientists of
CETI have trained LLMs by unsupervised learning on hours of recorded
sperm whale vocalizations and upon analysis discovered that they possess
a rich phonetic alphabet replete with vowels and diphthongs.

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

Google Deepmind has trained Dolphin Gemma, a dolphin-specific large
language model and is developing a wearable diver's interface that would
allow divers to use Dolphin Gemma communicate in real time with Dolphins
with while swimming.

https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/dolphingemma/

And on land, scientists have used LLMs to figure out that wild African
bush elephants have distinctive names for each member of the herd and
playing their name over over the loudspeaker causes the named elephant
and only the named elephant to respond.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02420-w.epdf

The notion that artificial intelligence could act as bridge between
biological intelligences of all species is something that is not often
brought up in the current debates about alignment and safety.

Stuart LaForge