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"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him" — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Using AI, or deep learning, or whatevers trendy this year, won't work, because we don't have any way of breaking into the whale corpus or of deciphering their logical grammar. The article says that the whales communicate at distance, in the dark, so there would be no behaviour that we could even tie to the clicks themselves to try and generate a meaning.