Why researchers think we’re close to getting cross-species chatbots. Support our work. Join Vox today: AI researchers and biologists team up to discover 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 toward what some AI companies see as a larger goal: building large language models to decode animal communication that is beyond the reach of human understanding. This video explains how they can do this using the same tools that gave us text, image and human language translation tools. Here’s the study on elephant names co-authored by Joyce Poole and Mickey Pardo: 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 advances in sound technology to study animals: ..

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36 thoughts on “How AI could help us talk to animals”
  1. I'm sure if you just go to a game ranger who works with elephants they'll immediately tell you they know "oh she's calling her aunty", in fact I think I've actually heard a ranger say something like that

  2. Just give an AI model a bunch of chemicals that resemble the chemicals found in nature and allow it to mix and match to communicate with animals that don't quite communicate with sound

  3. What if animal communication was universal in the kingdom? Things sound different but simply understood by what frequency they give off. My cat use to communicate very well with my dog!

  4. Hopefully animals have interesting things to say, but there’s a good chance it’s just basic things like “food” “water” “danger!” Since animals use an evolutionary built in language, I highly doubt it’s complicated and is most likely only about survival. Maybe animals with a higher intelligence like elephants and dolphins will have a more sophisticated language, time will tell.

  5. but did elephants recognize their own reflection in natural pools of water or was the mirror needed for them to recognize themselves? so did we interfere in a way that enabled them to understand more about their own world, also does it matter ? it's going to happen anyway

  6. Was it all elephants used the same "names" for each other? Or each elephant had their own call for each other elephant, and all the elephants learned all the different calls for all the different elephants from each elephant?

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