[ExI] 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