Could AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Communication?

Bioacoustics technology and artificial intelligence are revealing how animals communicate and may soon allow us to talk to them ourselves. What can we learn from wildlife? And should we be talking to the animals at all?
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[@GudasWorld_2]

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

[@Doran_Krotan]

_"Goose it boys! These humans know what we're saying now!"_ *- Dirty Simba and the Pride* 🤣

[@sirensynapse5603]

Why are you asking me?

[@dwaynejones1555]

Maybe the wild animals would say leave me alone.

[@QuantumBits0]

we can help them better if we understand them better

[@chenjus]

We need more Hannah Fry videos! I love these.

[@cyrilio]

second this!

[@rozh6370]

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

[@mikestewart4752]

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

[@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!!!!!!

[@_TheRam]

Can we turn animal communication into human speech with AI would be great

[@fraser5032]

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

[@vooteimer1234]

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

[@gags730]

They would probably tell us we never shut up.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Yes, as my dog now talks to me, and we have long conversations over almost every topic, such as, oops! nurse is on her rounds. Meds coming my way

[@Ab_Bea]

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

[@Questioneverything2050]

Connections

[@justintse4017]

Great documentary but how do you have more than 3 ads in less than 10mins 😂

[@Melih_R_Calikoglu]

A super power that we give AI to speak to all the animals that we eat or skin, to speak in an unknown unknown language.

[@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.

[@TheDuckAndRogerTheHorse]

It's not about World View. Its about basic communication. Speak to some tribes in South America. They know how crazy the modern world really is.

[@w-view2098]

It’s worth watching just from that voice alone

[@mikkeeyyy444]

It will shine a very big light when we go to rewatch Dr Dolittle 😅 this is a great / fascinating documentary. 👏👏

[@bobfaroAXD]

One of the best Scientific vids I've watched.. with the best farewell Question that will hit you in the heart..👍💯

[@raoultesla2292]

AI talk to animals? Then what, ask the animals at the Zoo how they feel? Interview starving Polar Bears?

[@perer005]

I've always assume there must be additional information in birdsong among a community of birds (like reporting what they observe), as it is quick the risk to keep signaling where you are to predators. Perhaps AI can find something we've missed.

[@lawerancelanham]

After pondering for a moment, I'd think you would need to know every reaction to a given signal from a particular animal. Even then it's going to be generally assumed responses or results

[@Nature-Light49]

Thank you that informatión.

[@cyrilio]

Secretarybirds are scary MFs. They're deadly as can be.

[@M0J1B]

State of Cache's owner 🤣🤣🤣

[@zeroonetime]

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

[@4mIlr]

cant wait to talk with orange cats!

[@boeingpameesha9550]

My sincere thanks for sharing it.

[@zivzulander]

AI translation feature on: _Seal starts singing "Kiss From A Rose"_ 🦭

[@DaleDoesItAll]

WOW - amazing content! Please keep it up!

[@CH-vr2dl]

it would be funny if the animals stops making their sounds when we get to have this tech. basically animals starts developing their own sign language.

[@TilMayne]

Thats why aliens beamed up a cow to ask how life on earth it, the cow could never tell a human what happend

[@m3talHalide-rt2fz]

"I start to get grandparent requests"

[@kurtisbunker7724]

Fo Sho... Dump some of that Sweet GPU money on solving cancers and talking to animals. I think all humans want to see those futures.

[@Questioneverything2050]

Talk to trees next 😁

[@seichimatsu395]

Don’t do that! What are the vegans going to eat if they find out they have feelings and pain? 😂😂😂

[@soladevs]

Instructions unclear, ended up speaking to stoners on reddit

[@FoulPet]

Have it work on peaceful resolutions before we talk to dolphins

[@retestkapse]

Great stuff and host 👍😊

[@DavidMohring]

How can you really tell if the system is a reliable translator?

[@seichimatsu395]

I think you’d need to ask animals to perform basic tasks a number of times and expect them to perform that same task at least 75% of the time. Or if there a usual response to a call getting that call back. It’s non verbal but for example a wolf responding to a howl with a howl but extrapolated into much more specific language.

[@derivedincubi]

I really want to know what elephants got to say.

[@kalimike3248]

the idea that animals are ¨dumb¨ is so outdated... ask any animal lover if their animal is smart and everyone will say YES!!!!

[@kajsagauza]

Shortly after AI unlocked the secret of animal communication, the Earth burned due to excessive fossil fuel consumption by AI.

[@microblogging7643]

after all we all be vegan at the end. That's how we approach AI to unlock animal communication

[@arisskarpetis]

Breaking story: scientists deliver fake news to herd of elephants.

[@gazmendsubrahimi8360]

"The Cheeese tax ...The Cheeese tax".

[@vicndeches]

samburu.hahah my country KENYA.🤣🤣

[@jackcloud8547]

Bruh, I was expecting to see Ashlee Vance

[@albertsitoe7340]

If we can’t speak to animals how do we ever expect to speak with aliens? 👽

[@seattlegrrlie]

AI can't even understand my communication. Have you talked to a chat bot trying to get an answer? Have you used Google's new search? AI is absolute trash

[@evensaj]

[@saadahmad438]

They mentioned Urdu 😃😃😃😁

[@AnnieLaura-k6p]

Me gustaría ver un tutorial sobre cómo usar el análisis fundamental en opciones binarias.👖

[@eklim2034]

Hugh hugh data needed to train

[@titeufintwariyabo201]

Is the model open source can someone play with it at home lots of birds in the compound

[@coldlyanalytical1351]

This is nonsense. Any farmer or smallholder knows that we can ALREADY communicate with animals. The main point is that they have their world and we have ours .. and they are happy to say Hello but then they want to move right along.

[@harryjones5260]

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

[@jackal2255]

People who live in Wales can speak whales?

[@marble296]

What is this BBC Horizon?

[@Originalhumble]

Nope. Can assume tho.

[@mikestewart4752]

Let’s not do the Ai whale thing huh people? WT aF?

[@REYNALDDOMINGODOMINAD46]

UNDOUBTEDLY QUANTUM AI AGT REST ASSURED IT DID ALREADY

[@mareksbesprozvannijs3463]

❤

[@Louis-w6l]

One day we will even be able to communicate with women! ❤😂😅

[@MuratGonullu-l3x]

Wilson Cynthia Rodriguez Frank Lopez Mary

[@nathanielbranham1138]

FOIST

[@IamDanish99]

I don’t know meow

[@birdstwin1186]

should have went more into the ai and voice recordings instead of jumping from animal to animal and talking about theoreticals. I came for science, not theory. Show me the recordings and the AI doing the analysis in real time.

[@dndjdjTjrhrhrieoeiehge-ht7gi]

Nop, that's the secret for deep meditation individuals only...

[@wilfred309]

Fascinating. A bunch of a professonal Feminists trying to understand animals.

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

No

[@creativecomputers6060]

No one cares

[@servethesongs]

Since when did the 7 billion meat eaters care what animals had to say?

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Chomp, chomp. According to King Charles plants have feelings, and he talks to them, so we should not eat them as it would be cruel to do so

[@faisalsheikh7846]

​@@dougaldouglas8842😂😂

[@htopherollem649]

Anton Petrov a science communicator on KZbin has a video about plants making noise when we damage them, cut them up ,(such as onions) and when they go unwatered . apparently they do communicate, quite loudly (up to 130 decibels), but it is above our hearing range (800 - 10,000 hertz ) so greater than 10,000 hertz