How AI can help to talk to animals
Can We Talk to Animals?
Have you ever wished you could chat with your dog, cat, or even a wild animal? Many kids talk to their pets, imagining they understand each other. While animals like dogs can learn commands like "sit" or "stay," we often don't know what they're trying to tell us when they bark, meow, or make other sounds.
How Do Animals Communicate?
Animals have their own ways of "talking." For example, sperm whales use special clicking sounds called "codas" to communicate with each other. Scientists are using computers and artificial intelligence (AI) to study these sounds and figure out what they mean
Birds like crows and ravens also make different sounds. A group called the Earth Species Project is using AI to understand bird calls and what they might be saying .
How Can AI Help?
AI is like a super-smart computer that can find patterns in sounds. With large set of sample of their sounds, AI tools can build models that could classify the sounds and correlate to specific behaviors, events, or other situations. By listening to many animal noises, AI can help scientists guess what animals are trying to say. This could help us understand when animals are hungry, scared, or happy.
Why Is This Important?
If we can understand animals better, we can take better care of them. Farmers could know when their animals need help, and vets could understand what's wrong with pets more quickly. Also, some animals can sense natural disasters before humans can. By listening to them, we might learn more about the world around us.
The Future
One day, we might have tools like AI that help us "talk" to animals, making our bond with them even stronger. Wouldn't it be amazing to have a conversation with your pet or understand what a bird is singing about?
Home Work
What would you like to ask your pet if you have a way to talk to your favorite pet or animal?
Want to know more details:
For information on how scientists are working to understand animal communication using AI, you can visit the Earth Species Project's website:
You can learn more about the CETI project here:
https://bioneers.org/can-ai-decode-whale-sounds-project-ceti-is-here-to-find-out-ztvz2504/
https://bioneers.org/can-ai-decode-whale-sounds-project-ceti-is-here-to-find-out-ztvz2504/
Listening, Not Controlling: A Legal Path for Ethical AI in Animal Research: Prepare, Engage, Prevent, and Protect.
https://bioneers.org/listening-not-controlling-a-legal-path-for-ethical-ai-in-animal-research-ztvz2505/
