Scientists Yossi Yovel and Oded Rechavi from Tel Aviv University in Israel talked about what obstacles AI developers face in communicating with animals, and also why such a tool does not allow you to ask animals about their health. Article published in a journal current biology.
Algorithms for processing human speech are becoming more and more precise, and this could eventually lead to the creation of artificial intelligence to communicate with animals.
To accomplish this task, the neural network must use the signals of the animal it uses to communicate. So pets should not learn new signals as in training.
In addition, these signals should be used by the animal in a variety of behavioral contexts, not just in courtship or threatening situations. That’s why scientists already know how to communicate with birds, for example, and sound a natural alarm signal for them.
Finally, the signal must receive a measurable response from the animal, as if it were communicating with a relative and not a machine. Scientists give the honey bee as an example. These insects transmit the location of the food to the colony through dance. Previously, biologists managed to decipher this dance and create a robotic bee that can lead animals to a specific place.
The authors explained that even meeting all of the above points will not help create artificial intelligence to communicate with animals at the level that pet owners dream of.
“While someday the algorithm may be able to tell us that a domestic cat is expressing love or disappointment, we may not have the opportunity to ask how it feels,” the authors wrote.
Neuroscientists added that even if AI’s power increases “a millionfold”, some of the barriers currently preventing talking to animals will remain. Even if a lion can speak, we cannot understand it, the authors argue, as philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued.
It may be easier to master primate communication as it is closest to human communication. But AI models will still need to be trained on large amounts of data, requiring long-term observation of primates in the wild.
The authors of the paper believe that in the future AI could be used to better understand animal communication, but that this is because humans have Dr. They conclude that he will not allow himself to communicate with animals like Dolittle.
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