I just could not figure out what the breakthrough was, other than they had decided that they would stop collecting sounds and start interpreting them. There was this huge press conference announcing that they were starting that. Supposedly the team had recorded dolphin sounds for years, and they were finally starting to interpret them. This concept is quite well developed in this story, except for the strange beginning, where the supposed breakthrough occurs, and I could not figure out what exactly it was. V oilà, you have a conversation with a dolphin. When dolphins whistle, the computer detects the words, looks them up in the vocabulary, and speaks them.
Humans type into the computer, or speak to a voice recognition system, and the system translates the word to a set of dolphin clicks and whistles. In this story, a team of researchers has used an IBM artificial intelligence engine to decode a dolphin vocabulary, and after the initial Hello, Yes and No words are discovered, it starts building very quickly. Also, select “cetaceans” in the Select a Category dropdown to the right, and you’ll find a lot of related posts. Search for the keyword “dolphin” on this blog and find some of my thoughts on it. This subject has always been one of deep interest to me, and I have literally read dozens of books on the subject. The first area has to do with dolphin intelligence and language. Spoiler Warning: the following contains minor spoilers which will not impact your enjoyment of the novel, but it is my policy to warn about spoilers. There are two areas that interested me specifically, and I want to discuss them. It’s a science fiction techno-thriller, where the science fiction is very light and superficial, and the thriller part is pretty standard and fairly bland U.S. government gets involved, and things go sideways very quickly.īreakthrough is Grumley’s debut novel and the first of a “series” of novels.
Navy discovers an artifact on the bottom of the ocean that seems to destabilize the geological balance of the entire planet. When a nuclear submarine in the Caribbean encounters anomalies with its GPS system, John Clay, a naval investigator is called in to figure out what happened.Īt the same time, Alison Shaw, a marine biologist and her small team of dedicated scientists achieve a breakthrough in their attempt to communicate with dolphins.Įventually the U.S.
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