Communicating with Synthetic Animals and the Ethical Implications

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Exploring the possibility of building synthetic animals capable of speaking like humans and the ethical implications of humans communicating with them, particularly whales. Highlighting the time difference between language in whales and humans and raising questions about introducing new sentences into a culture that predates human culture.

Shares in grocery delivery group Instacart jumped more than 10 per cent on their first day of trading, oil prices climbed above $95 a barrel for the first time in 2023, and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sparked fury in India when he said authorities were investigating whether “agents” of New Delhi were behind the June killing of a prominent Sikh activist in a Vancouver suburb.

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