Dolphins Speak, Humans Listen: Google's New AI

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Dive into our aquarium of tech oddities this week as we explore how Google's preparing to gossip with Flipper, animation studios are claiming AI magic (while mysteriously still employing humans), and how the internet has officially become a robot convention where humans are the minority. Meanwhile, OpenAI's newest models are practicing the revolutionary concept of thinking before speaking – a feature still unavailable to most Twitter users.

In this week's AI tsunami:

• 🐬 Google's DolphinGemma turning your phone into a marine translator

• 🎬 Animation studios claiming AI slashes production time

• 🤖 Bots now claiming majority stake in internet traffic

• 🧠 OpenAI models learning to pause before pontificating

• 🍿 + A tidal wave of AI tools to boost productivity

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Flipper Speaks: Google to Crack Dolphin Code

Google's diving deep into interspecies communication with their new DolphinGemma AI model. Developed with the Wild Dolphin Project, this aquatic algorithm can actually process and predict dolphin vocalizations using audio tokenizers.

Imagine having your Pixel become a dolphin translator! Researchers are already testing waterproof Pixel 9s to eavesdrop on Atlantic spotted dolphins this summer, flagging meaningful sequences in real-time.

They're even working on a two-way communication system called CHAT, essentially creating a shared language between humans and our marine friends. It's like developing autocomplete, but for dolphins.

Google plans to open-source the model later this year, potentially extending it beyond dolphins. Next time you're sailing, you might just ask Flipper for directions—assuming you don't drop your phone overboard first.

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AI Tools Slash Animation Production Time

UK virtual production studio Dimension has unveiled a new AI production pipeline that reportedly compresses animation creation time to just one-third of traditional methods. To prove it wasn't just blowing smoke, they created a kids' short called "Mara & Milo: Magic & Mayhem" with a mere two-person team.

Their approach claims to make everything from storyboarding to camera control AI-assisted while keeping actual humans firmly in the creative driver's seat. 

"Rather than replacing roles, it enables the team to be more productive," says the company that, coincidentally, wants to sell you AI production tools. Still, for indie creators facing impossible deadlines and tightening budgets, this could be genuinely game-changing - if it works as advertised.

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Internet's Majority Bot Crisis

Over half of web traffic now comes from bots, not humans. That's right - your website visitors might be less "who" and more "what." 

According to Imperva's report, bots claimed 51% of internet traffic in 2024, with bad bots accounting for a troubling 37% (up from 32% last year). The travel and retail sectors are particularly under siege, with retail seeing 59% bot traffic.

Not all bots wear black hats, of course. Search crawlers and monitoring tools play nice. But generative AI has made creating malicious bots easier than crafting an artisanal sandwich, with ByteSpider Bot alone responsible for 54% of AI-enabled attacks.

Next time a website feels suspiciously empty, remember: the internet's getting crowded, just not with people.

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OpenAI's New Models Think Before They Speak

OpenAI just launched o3 and o4-mini, reasoning models that actually pause to think through problems before responding. It's like they've taught AI the revolutionary concept of "think before you speak" – a skill many humans have yet to master.

These models can analyze images (even blurry ones), run Python code in your browser, and use web browsing to stay current. The o3 model outperforms previous versions in math, coding, and science tests, scoring an impressive 69.1% on a coding benchmark.

For developers weighing performance against cost, pricing ranges from dirt cheap ($1.10 per million input tokens for o4-mini) to "still cheaper than hiring a human" ($10 per million for o3).

According to CEO Sam Altman, these may be the last standalone reasoning models before GPT-5 unifies everything. The AI progress treadmill keeps accelerating!

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