Raskin: Whales have transmitted vocal culture for 34 million years
Aza Raskin · Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale · Jul 9, 2024 · at 2:02
Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Earth Species Project, discusses the evolutionary timeline of whale communication compared to human culture.
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“It turns out whales have been passing down culture for like Thirty-four million years, vocally. Human beings have been doing it for what, like a 100,300 thousand? So this is a culture that has lasted longer, 85 times longer than our entire species.”
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