Episode 254The Dubious Value Of Interspecies Communications
There\u2019s been a lot of chatter in the press lately about advances in interspecies communication and our soon-to-arrive ability to translate what our non-human neighbors are saying. That\u2019s quite a breakthrough, considering how much trouble I often have understanding what other HUMANS are saying. But there\u2019s another factor: even though AI, machine learning and large language models give us extraordinarily powerful abilities to analyze unimaginably large volumes of data, and to perhaps decode non-human communications, I\u2019m not convinced we should. Have a listen.