How AI could help us talk to animals
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AI researchers and biologists are teaming up to detect patterns in animal communication that are difficult, if not impossible, to observe with the human eye alone. The studies that have come out so far are steps towards what some AI companies see as a larger goal: building large language models to decode animal communication that is beyond the reach of human comprehension.
This video explains how they might do that, using the same tools that gave us text, image and translation tools for human language.
Here is the study about elephant names co-authored by Joyce Poole and Mickey Pardo:
www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02420-w
Karen Bakker's book The Sounds of Life is a great read if you want to learn more about how biologists are taking advantage of advancements in sound technology to study animals:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-sounds-of-life-how-digita…
We didn't cover it here, but there was an interesting breakthrough using AI to detect more sperm whale codas than ever before:
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8
Here is a link to Yossi Yovel's bat study:
www.nature.com/articles/srep39419
Here is the macaque monkey study:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.1…
Earth Species Project can be found here:
www.earthspecies.org/
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コメント (21)
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Finally. We'll be able to address the elephant in the room.
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All fun and games until you leave the house and your dog starts pleading with you in English not to leave. I’d never leave the house out of guilt lol
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Imagine going to all this trouble, and finding out some species just don't have anything interesting to say. Like how most morning bird calls are apparently variations on "MY tree! MY tree!"
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Soo... how many years until we have collars like Dug's in "Up"?
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Related but on another animal topic: Chickens will name and then use the name for each of their human caregivers individually, as well as different role call sounds for each chicken in their own flock. My spouse and I have our own names that were passed down from our former senior hen, who was our first chicken. We have 2 roosters who live indoors and came from another home, and they call us by the name they chose for us, which is different from the name our outdoor flocks call us. I'd love to be able to translate some of their other calls too, using a tech like this
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Phineas and Ferb's Invention idea is starting to come true
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First conversation: Animal: You said WHAT?!?!?
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but what if the different elephants speak different accents of "elephant language"? like cows who have different accents in different regions
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Can't wait for DuoLingo Elephant
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Imagine Americans yelling at animals "THIS IS AMERICA! SPEAK ENGLISH." That probably won't end too well for the person
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It would be wild to not only decode what animals are saying but also translate English into it
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We could possibly be able to speak to elephants before GTA VI
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Ask the animal in the slaughterhouses how they feel.
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Eagerly waiting for the Dr. Dolittle app to say "I love you" to my little dog and have him understand
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Imagine discovering that the neighborhood dog is an insult comic (dumping on you day & night). :o
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What a time to be alive!
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Reminds me about a book I'm currently reading, "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir (The Martian), only the animal in this case is an alien. The way the language barrier is solved in the book is pretty close to this.
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Imagine explaining to an animal that your not going to eat them
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Never been closer to having a real-life Babel-fish, science is endlessly fascinating.
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dolphins: Thank you for all the fish
