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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-animals/>
"In the 1970s a young gorilla known as Koko drew worldwide attention with her
ability to use human sign language. But skeptics maintain that Koko and other
animals that “learned” to speak (including chimpanzees and dolphins) could not
truly understand what they were “saying”—and that trying to make other species
use human language, in which symbols represent things that may not be
physically present, is futile.
“There’s one set of researchers that’s keen on finding out whether animals can
engage in symbolic communication and another set that says, ‘That is
anthropomorphizing. We need to ... understand nonhuman communication on its own
terms,’” says Karen Bakker, a professor at the University of British Columbia
and a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Now
scientists are using advanced sensors and artificial intelligence technology to
observe and decode how a broad range of species, including plants, already
share information with their own communication methods. This field of “digital
bioacoustics” is the subject of Bakker’s new book
The Sounds of Life: How
Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants.
Scientific American spoke with Bakker about how technology can help humans
communicate with creatures such as bats and honeybees—and how these
conversations are forcing us to rethink our relationship with other species."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
