Could AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Communication? | The Future With Hannah Fry

[@caryd67]

I’ve been feeding crows for around 12 years. I’ve developed a relationship with them, and have become very tuned with their vocalizations. I know the specific sound they make when they’re still babies and begging mum for food, I know when they are warning each other about an unwanted guest or predator, I know when they are happy or excited… they make a chicken-like clucking from their throat to express contentment for example. It’s much, much more than just “caw caw”. You can literally hear their mood and feelings.

[@bijokvarghese4867]

People like you who are really interested and curious about understanding language of animals should come together and work together and i think you guys will make something which no one has ever seen before

[@QuizmasterLaw]

some corvids are talkers and they have intergenerational memory so keep at it you might train an entire flock in human speech

[@BakedAndAfraid]

The Spectrum starts from Crazy Cat People all the way to Crazy Bird People.. Please don't start a Crow Army.

[@bestbehave]

@@BakedAndAfraid You knopw nothing John Snow

[@Hiforest]

​@BakedAndAfraid Crows are awesome. I'd love a crow army lol.

[@basically_chris]

I might be delusional, but I can tell when my cat meows "open the door", or "Food plz". or "I'm bored". Not much more but 2-5 "meow-phrases" feel distinct and recognisable. I hear a "meow" and I know "oh, he's bored now" etc - or I just love him too much .

[@sunnynova6]

I have 3 cats and i know what they want. Cats talk to you telepathically, believe me or not i dont care. owning a cat makes you know instantly what they want.

[@nulnoh219]

I mean... If they can recognise what the sound you make meant...

[@neolord50pro77]

I can distinct demanding ,questioning, angry and various others intonations in my cats voice. The rest is deducable from the context.

[@98Zai]

@@sunnynova6 You can understand cat body language and eye contact. It's not telepathy, and it's not all that amazing either. I think everyone who loves their pet knows what they're saying most of the time. You thinking that you have telepathic communication with your animals isn't healthy. Talk to someone about that. Your pets don't understand you when you think to them, so you're failing in your communication.

[@basically_chris]

@@98Zai you happy now?

[@chenjus]

We need more Hannah Fry videos! I love these.

[@cyrilio]

second this!

[@andrew_moffat]

google deepmind podcast!

[@CharlesIsabirye]

Agreed

[@bobandalice]

braziers

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If you are not vegan, don't even talk about logic, compassion, morals or animal intelligence 👉 Dominion (2018)

[@nulnoh219]

Sound is just one part of communication. So much of our own communication is non verbal body language.

[@gregrice1354]

Ooohhhhh! So maybe THAT is why reading books is so difficult?

[@k9hays]

Exactly! If you spend any time in the Deaf Culture, one would see very well how much body language plays is conveying thoughts, feelings, and language. The same goes for our K9 friends!

[@NightmareRex6]

well for us autistics body langude for the most is ofton alien becuase it changes on culture and person yet somehow have to "know" maby then test it on autistic animals instead?

[@RhumpleOriginal]

Right so you train the model on a specific animal. Videos with sound so the AI can make any visual connections with the sounds. Google did this with all the mouse footage we gathered over the last few decades. They then gave the AI control of a 3d mouse with all the same physical limitations, muscles, etc. It was able to control the body of the mouse to move around as if it was a real mouse. Don't take anything I or anyone says at face value and look up what I said to further confirm things for yourself.

[@dh2032]

thinging that myself, if missing most of the communication? on very long shot?, seems a bit pointless? to even start to me?

[@mikestewart4752]

Ai: “WoUld. YoU. LIke. To. plAy. A. GamE? Whales: “Global Thermonuclear War.”

[@greengooflight]

Lemurs: "We Have The Nuclear Codes"

[@FoodNerds]

😂😂😂😂

[@mikestewart4752]

@@FoodNerds 😁

[@PedroHenriquePS00000]

What? Hahahahah

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

I don't even talk to my neighbors. Why would I want to talk to animals?

[@senselocke]

I *LOVE* the idea that when communicating with whales, we meed to be mindful of pre-existing culture or tradition that we could disrupt. It's such a forward-thinking approach, and I am so grateful that the folks working on this not only conceptualized it, but viewed it as a distinct and likely important possibility.

[@rozh6370]

Amazing work! Talking to other species was a child hood dream , never thought a project like this would come to light! Kudos

[@itoibo4208]

me, too. the funny part is, AI might at first learn to talk to animals but not really understand what it is hearing and saying, so have no way to translate it to human language.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If you are not vegan, don't even talk about logic, compassion, morals or animal intelligence or communication 👉 Dominion (2018)

[@jerrycornelius5986]

I live in a forest with a lot of different birds. The social species are constantly talking softly or calling loudly. I haven’t learned their language, but even different species communicate with each other. If there is a falcon, whoever sees it first gives the alarm call and everyone goes into hiding until the all clear. It is not only sounds, there is also a lot of body language and motions. Each species has its own unique sounds and signals but different species seem to understand each other. I think we have barely scratched the surface of wild animal communication.

[@NOKOOG]

Absolutely this. It can be seen in fish as well: different species communicating with each other, even without ever interacting with that species before. And just as you said, there is so much more to the ways animals communicate than just audible sounds - colors, body shape, body language, spatial posturing, smell, etc.

[@Lazadvjkn]

⁠@@NOKOOGfunny you mention fish. I have fostered an incredible friendship with my angelfish over 5 years. We can easily communicate now. It surprised me, the amount of intelligence of a tiny fish. She can invent games on her own, 7 so far. She understands playful and relaxed, scared, angry. Lots of emotions. Even understanding of reflections.

[@Lazadvjkn]

@@NOKOOGhow did you know so much about how fish communicate? Because you are spot on

[@ireallylovegod]

You have to disregard the alarm call as language because even WE understand it , or does it mean this is the level animals understand and we still speak it unconsciously ? Hurry up AI , what IS my dog saying?

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

Animals that spend enough time with other species within an ecosystem observe and learn. Humans are animals and do the same when they pay attention and spend the time necessary.

[@sirensynapse5603]

Why are you asking me?

[@Concurr]

Ha ha

[@brandon8900]

So lazy smh. May as well ask us to write the script!

[@eestaashottentotti2242]

​@@brandon8900That would be a weird idea. Fully black video, but evolves from the comments (text, AI image generation etc.).

[@bankiey]

@@eestaashottentotti2242sounds excellent, sounds like something 4 tet would make

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If you are not vegan, don't even talk about logic, compassion, morals or animal intelligence or communication 👉 Dominion (2018)

[@drhxa]

Hannah Fry is amazing!

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If you are not vegan, don't even talk about logic, compassion, morals or animal intelligence or communication 👉 Dominion (2018)

[@stoicsveganage]

Hopefully people make the connection towards all animals realising that their lives matter and dont deserve to be used and abused for pallet pleasure

[@vooteimer1234]

Cant wait to hear my cat say "give me food" over and over.

[@gags730]

They would probably tell us we never shut up.

[@trinleywangmo]

[@concernedearthling4877]

you made me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kevinnivek8907]

And talk about eating our face when we die….

[@ZatnaktelCz]

Your cat is not talking to you? You aparently not perceive a lot.

[@davidvdbergen]

When we are able to speak to animals, the very first thing we should do is APOLOGIZE!!!!

[@el_teodoro]

No, Mimi first :c she scratched me for no reason wakes me up early in the morning and so much more

[@chrisnolan7423]

I assume you are the type of person whom was upset to learn the Amazon rainforest isn't an untouched wilderness but over grow farm land from the 1400. Conservative estimates put 11% as maze crops. Even the Smithsonian magazine covered this back in 2017.

[@user-xd5fl3my6l]

For being the dominate species? lol

[@mindurbusiness-b3u]

no, it should be "can you eat the seasoning now to save me adding it later?"

[@Chris-wq3pe]

@@chrisnolan7423 and I assume you are a fan of Joe Rogan.

[@elijaprice]

I don't know what the big deal is about translating the language of Wales into English, my mother spoke Welsh, she did it all the time.

[@davidhidalgo5772]

Times that AI was actually used in the 24 minutes video regarding animal communication: One. Extending bird noises for 2 seconds.

[@lynxthewise7233]

Pretty sure they mentioned they're getting to that stage? 🤔

[@DraganTopic-t8i]

Ova zena ima veoma izrazajan i zvucno ucen govor..zvuci realno ..a i pozitivno je ucenje..

[@mrHello420__]

My 2 cents: Human language is way more complex than everything other animals could use or even comprehend. So I think we can already speak with animals through body language and that not much more is possible.

[@devlogerio]

This video is so amazingly videpo graphed! the music the slow talks, the scenary and animals its all made to give you goosbump, Holy moly what an experience and what an information rich video... Thank you

[@SSogarius]

Awesome! Keep the vids with Dr. H. Fry coming 🎉

[@lauriepalmer3593]

I had not yet thought about how AI could unlock animal language and now I am so excited for this!!!!!!

[@hydrohasspoken6227]

Yah sure. AI can't count the number of "r" in BARRIER, but it will surely understand "the secrets" of Animal Communication, won't it?

[@lauriepalmer3593]

@@hydrohasspoken6227 in time it will

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If you are not vegan, don't even talk about logic, compassion, morals or animal intelligence or communication 👉 Dominion (2018)

[@PorterWood09]

Regardless, whether we learn their language or not, it’s how much respect and autonomy we are willing to give them. Humans are more likely to manipulate then they are to work with animals. I’m also stunned in this video that the guests as well as the host can’t believe how intelligent animals are. Humans definitely have a long road ahead of growth, understanding, and respect for other species and living organisms on this earth. Even plants and mushrooms have distinct communication patterns that we are just now learning about.

[@deep_space_dave]

Imagine the horror if we could understand what factory farmed animals are saying?

[@oui2611]

my concern is that what if we find out they dont say much, but they manipulate the ai to generate a whole sentence which an animal supposedly said that turns out its not actually true, its 90% falsely generated by the ai.

[@deep_space_dave]

@@oui2611 Very true! AI needs governance and oversight!

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

In big farms they probably don't say that much because of the circumstances. No real societal structure, 'artificial' frequent replacements and such so I believe it is very broken and simple. Otherwise farm animals living in better circumstances may surprise us with the complexity of their languages. But I do agree it will be a long time until we can solve the languages of other animals to the point of reliable translations. And careful governance and oversight needed.

[@petevenuti7355]

Imagine children raised in a jail, where the gards never really spoke to them and never had much interaction with each other just kept in their cells. With experience outside of that, how much communication could they really have?

[@kevinmunger1842]

@@deep_space_dave AI needs to be ended before it takes root.

[@WildWonders-n1d]

wow the video at 1:20 is awesome

[@0ctatr0n]

The Ai Dataset would need a video recording that can associate the sound with the particular animal saying it, to cross reference looking direction and action of the animal to build a more nuanced understanding of what the sounds mean and perhaps offer context we can understand.

[@Aengus42]

06:30 Both English & Urdu are languages in the Proto-Indo-European family. They both are descendants of the same parent language. So it's unsurprising that there are similarities.

[@davidm2.johnston684]

Extraordinary video, thank you for producing and sharing it here with us!

[@timginter146]

the narrative, writing, healthy scepticism and her voice - it's the best Bloomberg doc I've seen, honestly!

[@ferdianeary822]

I REALLY enjoyed the sceptic approach

[@beridahenry5836]

Animal communication would serve as a monumental achievement for humanity

[@kickinkanga7026]

Yeah way more important than solving cancer.

[@harrisonandrew]

What a fascinating video.

[@dwaynejones1555]

Maybe the wild animals would say leave me alone.

[@QuantumBits0]

we can help them better if we understand them better

[@The_Garden_of_Fragile_Egos]

The ancient wisdom is "actions speak louder than words". What we want is entertainment value and nothing more. We already ignore their actions, so we'll likely do the same if we decode their communication, just like we do with autistic people.

[@binarycode9893]

They should be left alone. We don't understand their vocabulary for a reason. We ain't meant to.

[@QuantumBits0]

@binarycode9893 we actually do already, we understand some of elephants vocabulary now, we just need ai to unlock more

[@juliahello6673]

Wild animals are constantly in danger of predation, disease, assault, so of course they’re afraid of all other animals including humans.

[@danielkrikorian8727]

The thing with the elephant's and the bees. Just amazing!

[@GudasWorld_2]

I think I already know what the animals are saying. "STOP FING KILLING US"

[@trinleywangmo]

Aren't we all saying that!

[@nebyeelda5862]

more like" share the meat".

[@stephenholmgren405]

Life eats life

[@zincminus]

They’re delicious though

[@Cesar-b2c]

Jim's here. 😅 she's adorably funny

[@Ab_Bea]

Seeing you everywhere at the moment, Hannah. Well done!

[@Questioneverything2050]

Connections

[@realBeltalowda]

A while back I had recently installed a cheapo bird bath and bird feeder in the back yard. I was working in the yard and kept hearing the Blue Jays make this sound that sounded stressed, and the squirrels were making their angry bark and chattering sound that they sometimes make at my dog. I came to see what was going on and saw a baby Blue Jay that couldn’t fly trying to flap and climb up a tree trunk. In the trees above, its parents and a neighborhood squirrel were making these sounds at something in the next yard over. I didn’t want the Jays to attack me so I went to peek over the fence at what they were stressed about and it was a cat creeping around. Immediately the Jays’ call connected in my head and began to sound much more like “cat”. I grabbed a shovel and slowly moved over to the baby bird keeping a watchful eye on the parents. I scooped up the baby in the shovel and lifted it up into a high nook in the tree where it sat and slept for a few hours. After that I started seeing little gifts left in the bird bath, including 3 blue glass beads, and a tiny figurine of a dog that looks weirdly similar to my dog. Every year since the Jays and their babies come back and nest in the trees here and fly up and say hello from time to time.

[@fraser5032]

Last statement was very well said ❤ we need to listen better.

[@tolstory]

yes, behavior science is on the cutting edge to cross the boundaries of understanding animal language. What is required is for close behavior observation that includes imaging, sounds and posturing. Body language is just part of communication and the sounds with their inflections and unique sounds help to validate their language.

[@paulstevenconyngham7880]

The key technology allowing us to talk to animals is not the transformer, it is “Clip” research done by OpenAI that allows embeddings of different modalities to be embedded in the same space. This allowed for text to image (midjourney, diffusion etc) and will soon allow for text to dog. Your documentary was extremely well produced btw

[@user-xsn5ozskwg]

Dogs don't communicate with language, so I don't know how that is supposed to work.

[@paulstevenconyngham7880]

@@user-xsn5ozskwg active brain scan data embedded in the same space as language

[@extraincomesuz]

Really? Yes they do. Although a lot of it is non-vetbal, they do make noises to plead, show boredom, get angry, show affection, call to each other. I could go on....😊

[@user-xsn5ozskwg]

@@extraincomesuz That's not language. There are behavioural trends that are commonly used for communication, which isn't to say you don't understand or can't communicate with your dog, but a language that does not make.

[@retrojimmyx]

Some of my favourite things: AI, animals and Prof. Fry - thanks ;-)

[@PresidentUSVI]

Anybody who raised animals growing up will know that animals have there own language to communicate and if you are around them long enough you will understand what they are saying. This isn’t something we just discovered like how they are making it appear.

[@baneverything5580]

Chickens are constantly talking to each other and have a very complex language.

[@ufind6048]

*their

[@nastyrobmiddleearthproduct9027]

I've only been following Hannah Fry for a short time now but I have been falling in love with her episodes of the program called "THE FUTURE". It may be because she's a cute redhead. It might be because she is intelligent, playful, curious, and an actively engaged host that keeps bringing me back to her amazing shows!!! Either way, I'm all in...

[@yeetlizard458]

Jimmy here’s 😂

[@yeetlizard458]

Ginnnnnnnnnnny😂

[@johnosullivan675]

When she introduced Asa i thought she was naming the brain in the jar.

[@timanderson6005]

Hannah Fry is the new Attenborough. A brilliant science communicator. Speaking with elephants is just bonkers.

[@4mIlr]

cant wait to talk with orange cats!

[@anotheryoutubechannel4809]

meow

[@4mIlr]

@@anotheryoutubechannel4809 khhhhhh khhhh

[@Endo-Skeleton]

Be careful what you wish for… all it’ll want is lasagne! 😂

[@mlgboy1]

One of the best, most beautifuly put together videos I have seen for a ong time. Absolutley fascinating to see what could be acheived by understanding animal communication and how it might help us to better care for our planet and its inhabitants. Well done Hannah excelently presented.

[@daveharris2884]

This kind of feels like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

[@saganandroid4175]

I would give anything to run into Carl Sagan after he saw that movie.

[@kaiying74]

7:30 - That's one of the best, most concise but easy to understand explanations of LMMs I've seen. Bravo.

[@montikore]

Hannah Fry😍😍

[@harryjones5260]

you've got it the wrong way round. animals give us the chance to learn to communicate without talking or words.

[@evelynrose2869]

yes... horses communicate with images and energy as well as sound, breath, body, space

[@johnlaughton1370]

I believe that energy shears the truth. And some of us like to think we have that Devine connections, I personally believe that some do.

[@michaelrichie5]

Mind blowing! Finally we will see that we are far from the most intelligent beings.

[@TheSelfloveSpace]

I think if this happens, it may not do much to our evolution but if things get right and animal start to understand us as well, it will fuel up their evolution

[@eschwarz1003]

no parrots included? Also thought a lot of progress had been made with Orcas

[@williamhoward7121]

I spoke to a researcher studying dolphins, in Cozumel Mexico, and he confidently stated that dolphins can transmit images using their sonar which draws an image of an underwater area and transmit that to another dolphin that sees that image in their brain!

[@stubbsmusic543]

Dr. Chat-GPT Dolittle? It should be enlightening hearing a platypus finally tell a human being, "Stop f***ing up the planet."

[@DouwedeJong]

Thanks for making this video. I learned something today.

[@alexandrawagner5963]

I want to know what elefants and whales will tell us from their travels!

[@limbeboy7]

Incredible 22:51

[@sanityd1]

First thing we have got to do, is to tell those orcas to keep attacking the yachts

[@saganandroid4175]

And the fishing boats!!!

[@notever9465]

Omg Hanna is stunning, hands down the most beautiful red haired lady I have even seen. Wow 😊😅

[@j2csharp]

How can we ever expect to talk to aliens if we can't talk to our own animals? The aliens we seek are right in front of us. We must find the universal translator for our animals. It's the first step.

[@hydrohasspoken6227]

talk to aliens?

[@j2csharp]

@@hydrohasspoken6227 Yes, assuming the aliens exist, and we have a goal communicate with them. :) It will be easier to learn how to talk to our animals vs aliens.

[@hydrohasspoken6227]

@@j2csharp you can hardly communicate well with migrants in your own country, you are planning to communicate with aliens already?

[@saganandroid4175]

IT'S A COOKBOOK!

[@allanshpeley4284]

Aliens that can make their way to Earth will be far more intelligent than any animal.

[@extraincomesuz]

My horse always seemed to want to communicate with me or ask, during training sessions, "What did you want?" or "Did I do that right?" I think sometimes animals want to communicate with us. Like YT videos of whales going to a diver to seek help for a pod member caught in a net. Or they might tell us how our pollution is affecting their ability to survive. As an English teacher, listening is more than 50% of communication.

[@PedroHenriquePS00000]

I always think to myself HOW are we suposed to identify alien communication if we cant even understand what our own animals are communicating

[@_mobasshir_]

Because we take the assumption that aliens will be intelligent like us.

[@saganandroid4175]

​@@_mobasshir_you think humans are intelligent? It's all just instinctual behaviors.

[@_mobasshir_]

@@saganandroid4175 So you are saying we built Quantum computers out of Instinct.

[@saganandroid4175]

@@_mobasshir_ you can't prove otherwise.

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@saganandroid4175 🤡

[@talkinghat88]

This video stands out as the most insightful exploration of AI, far surpassing the typical narratives about AI taking our jobs or posing existential threats.

[@alanhall6909]

The average pet cat or dog understands around 200 words spoken by their owners. I knew a guy who had a border collie and he frequently had to spell out words to keep his dog from knowing what he was saying. So called superior humans understand maybe 0-3 words of their pets. We are so proud of our ability to get our pets to use technology to speak our language.

[@rkzinczy]

We are superior.

[@alanhall6909]

@@rkzinczy Well, you clearly think you are.

[@wesleyw.terpstra1902]

Wolves might have a native language, but dogs surely don't, because we separate them more-or-less at birth.

[@alexandrawagner5963]

This is exciting! Very soon we gonna have a translation App to talk with animals! ❤🎉 I saved a little bird from a trap last Sunday! ❤🎉 All animals can talk to each other in their families. I have experienced that raven birds told their friends where they found food and brought them.

[@baneverything5580]

I saw a baby bird trapped in a net and when I went over to get it out 2 Mockingbirds & 2 Wrens attacked me. But after I saved it the Mockingbird parents liked me and nested there from then on. The dad would sit very close to me when I practiced acoustic guitar outside. He was fascinated by the guitar. Male Cardinals have been known to adopt and care for orphaned birds of other species. And some birds have learned to use bait to catch fish.

[@saganandroid4175]

Gone vegan yet?

[@maxruedy951]

I'm not so sure that we are really ready for how animals feel about the way us humans are trashing the planet.

[@saganandroid4175]

Or that many humans still eat animals even with other things available.

[@WhiteRabbidCat]

The real issue with decyphering animal communication with AI is lemmatization, i.e. making sense of portions of sounds to eventually combine and articulate them into "grammatically" meaningful utterrances.

[@NWforager]

would be something when AI and animals cooperate , Without Humans 👀

[@pesilaratnayake162]

Whether or not other species have complex conversations, we would still likely be able to grasp basic common needs quite quickly. Much like when you learn a language by watching others, you can pick up when they are hungry, thirsty, scared, sleepy, and so on. Conversations about dreams, relationships or hierarchy dynamics would be much harder to decipher. Mixing multimodal information using AI can help determine correlations and causal relationships between behaviours, but it would likely take human intervention to help the AI determine what they behaviours actually mean.

[@lingwan0able]

See if the dog can teach the buttons to another dog

[@extraincomesuz]

The best way to teach English is to ask students to reteach a lesson to their classmates. You find out exactly what part of the lesson is the most challenging.

[@Carl-vg2xi]

Deeply fascinating.

[@zeroonetime]

First, unlock the secrets of human miscommunication, then you'll understand Animal Communication.

[@XAirForcedotcom]

Not only will we be able to talk to animals we absolutely should. There are many of us that are excited about finding and communicating with alien live but that alien life is living right with us and we haven’t even done that yet. Considering they live in the same environment that we’re destroying, we should absolutely be talking to them and learning from them.

[@XAirForcedotcom]

I already told the entire world they needed a universal constitution for all life forms to include AI the animals here and the things that we think we might run into. You either start treating each other in the environment correctly or AI could get rid of you and if that doesn’t happen, some other species on another world might get rid of you. It’s the right thing to do and it’s dangerous not to do it. We have to unify as a world, and then we can solve problems even easier because we’re not using our resources against each each other, which is wasteful to begin with.

[@XAirForcedotcom]

Unify or Die (UOD).

[@XAirForcedotcom]

Starfleet Ad. Abe One K’Nowledge, Jedi. Yes, I’m sitting here by myself thinking about all of this after everything I ever made was stolen for me by the criminals in the government. When you’re already retired military, and you have the entire system attack you because you’ve been telling on it then there’s a little bit of a problem. I ran for president and had both political parties attacked me and then the United Nations wouldn’t answer any questions either. I don’t think so because I worked for everybody in some sense and you’re all going to do your jobs. That’s why I had to create the real Starfleet. You’re going to get along with your brothers and sisters here on earth and learn everything you can about this planet then fix your problems before you’re allowed to go out and mess with anything else and any big way. You’re not gonna go building in multiple moon stations you’re gonna build one. The department of defense isn’t going to steal Star Trek’s symbology and use it to get more kids to go to war which is exactly what they did when I was running for president and created space force. I don’t think so DOD. C. Q Brown was still going to college at Texas Tech while I’m at Reese’s Air Force Base on active duty and now they act like I don’t exist when I’m the one that protected them before they were even in the military.

[@jacobpaint]

We already know that many animals make sounds to communicate specific things and it’s possible that the level of communication of a species is related to how sociable it is and where it stands in the prey-predator pecking order. A solitary apex predator probably doesn’t have complex vocal communication but an apex predator that lives in large social groups might. Prey animals that live in large groups probably tend to have more complex communication but depending on other factors, they might only communicate about obvious things like threats, mating and food or they could have deeper relationships within their community. An animal that spends it’s days grazing and isn’t especially playful might not need complex communication beyond different types of threats (which might be more effectively communicated by movement than sound) but a small social animal that has more complex social relationships and plays more often might have developed more complex language. It’s interesting research, so long as there aren’t major uses for communicating with animals that will earn big corporations and poachers money, the tech hopefully wont be abused because there will be many very clever applications to help the environment. Imagine if you could communicate to animals that they should migrate to a nearby area either because it’s better for them or so they can avoid human destruction of their habitats.

[@rockyjohnson9243]

All you need to do is pay attention to them and you will discover what they are saying for the most part. However to be able to have an actual conversation with your pet would be neat.

[@ThoughtFrontier2050]

Using AI to communicate with animals could lead to misunderstandings due to differences in cognition. It also raises serious ethical concerns about potentially exploiting or manipulating animals instead of respecting their natural behavior. This idea should lead to a deeper reflection on how we interact with animals in general. They need to be treated with more empathy and respect then they get now. Imagine sending a panda bear to a therapist to discuss their feelings about humans!

[@doodsanddudes]

This fascinates me. I always knew that animals are very intelligent and I see it in my labradoodle. She is very nonverbal but she is also learning the verbal side since I am human. Brilliant minds on animals!

[@eternaldoorman5228]

wooow! Hannah! You're on the case!❤❤❤❤

[@Cesar-b2c]

The heart on Hannah's jacket. Chefs 💋

[@Marshall_Byron]

This was an amazing video.

[@kfk256]

Wow! I have been hoping AI can unlock interspecie communication. Godspeed team!

[@austenpowers]

Diggin’ this series - Prof Full English is a brilliant presenter. The Nokia ads are annoying as all ads are. Subbed though 🤙

[@robvandenheuvel128]

Wow!! Seems the abilities of AI is limited only by our imagination. This makes perfect sense, we can learn so much from animals. Would it enhance or degrade our relationships if we were somehow able to communicate messages back to animals via AI. I’ve long been skeptical about the possible downside of AI but I can honestly say this is an application which really gets me excited 👏👏👏👏

[@MaxR52]

Man these Bloomberg originals have a grown up vice feel to them. Big fan

[@seanendapower]

“If we don’t do it, someone else will.” On using synthetic whale song. It troubles me this common way of thinking. Presumably this is hard to work to do. Someone else won’t do it if they don’t have the resources or skill to do it. But if You do it, they can use what you did without needing those resources or skills. And I must say I doubt anyone will put together a Geneva convention for animals, given how many many people think about animals…

[@farceadentus]

Fascinating work. Its important this work is done now, to prepare for communication with E.T species.

[@duudsuufd]

If ET's contact us, they already will have this technology.

[@farceadentus]

@@duudsuufd I doubt they would lend their devices to us.

[@urbanstrencan]

Talking to animals would be sooooo awesome ❤❤

[@m3talHalide-rt2fz]

Not a hidden mathematic structure. Its like double abstraction: the relationship between the term to describe a female sibling and female parent will have the same relationships across any "space" (language) that make use of those meanings - if we didnt have the specific terms, how many of the same concepts would be used to describe them uniquely? "Female" and "related" are 2/3 most important terms, the same, and the way "female" relates to other terms will be the same in all languages that use those terms (like queen, grandma, aunt). Could call it anything, the word itself is a symbol, but its relation to all other words is what gives it meaning.

[@Synky]

What?!

[@bigbritishcolumbia7827]

Bro its gonna just say the biological emotion it feels in regards to the context of the situation

[@FelipeMiranda-fy5cc]

For artificial intelligence to truly understand animals, each species would need to have the intention of teaching it. Without this, AI would be limited to interpreting animals based on human perceptions, essentially a view shaped largely by assumptions and subjectivities. After all, it was us who programmed and trained it according to our worldview.

[@explorerryan]

I've been thinking about this one for years. Thanks for looking into this one and sharing too ❤

[@jaseboon6282]

"Love" is the word to use

[@Marcus-Brutus]

Decisions about technology should ideally be based on reason and facts, not fear alone. Using fear to justify the adoption or regulation of technology undermines the principles of rational inquiry and evidence-based decision-making.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

100% Yes. Already working on it. Large LANGUAGE model. I speak a half dozen languages fluently. We are absolutely going to use LLM AI to decode animal speech, though it will be comparatively limited, unfortunately; we really are the smartest animals on this planet. What we do when we meet the aliens is a better question: They will very likely be more technologically advanced than we are.

[@d34bru]

problem, the instruments we use to collect and produce sound doesn't have the same frequency sensibility as some animals have. Also, part of animal lang is body movement.

[@codyeasonBGR]

So cool. Excited about this as well

[@rohitsharma7553]

i was curiuos about this topic since chat gpt came, i did some research on my own. but didn't got any correct answers, i though i was the alone thinking about this, but after watching this video, i realised there is some hope.

[@10aDowningStreet]

Hannah Fry does loads of great documentaries, if you find this interesting search up the rest of her stuff, mainly on the BBC I think.

[@photorealm]

I had never thought about using AI to translate animal communication, how cool that would be. It should prove once and for all that most are very sentient. I wonder if animals can lie or deceive or flatter or maybe they have no need for that.

[@NeerajKumar-ld8ht]

Animal communicate in sign language of sound. They produce different types of sound according to the situation in their surroundings.