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What if whales aren’t just talking… but debating us?

What if whales aren’t just talking… but debating us?

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 In this episode of Brain Bamboozle, we dive deep—literally—into the eerie world of whale communication. Scientists at Project CETI are using AI to decode the clicks of sperm whales, revealing patterns that resemble human language. Could these marine giants have names, dialects… even stories? It's part sci-fi, part science—and 100% brain-bending. Prepare to question who's really at the top of the food chain.

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The claim that “AI Is Decoding Whale Language—and It’s More Complex Than Ours” is partially true in spirit but not fully accurate in scientific terms.
AI and Whale Language Decoding
• AI is helping decode whale language: Researchers are using machine learning to analyze sperm whale communication, identifying patterns and structures in their vocalizations (clicks or “codas”) that resemble components of human language, such as a “phonetic alphabet”.
• Complexity of whale communication: Sperm whale communication is highly complex, structured, and context-dependent, with features like rhythm, tempo, rubato, and ornamentation allowing for a wide variety of codas—potentially thousands of unique combinations.
• Comparison to human language complexity: While whale communication is sophisticated and shares some linguistic features with human language (such as discrete building blocks and combinatorial structure), there is no evidence that it is “more complex than ours.” Human language involves syntax, semantics, recursion, and the ability to discuss abstract concepts, which have not been demonstrated in whale communication.
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