How artificial intelligence is helping scientists talk to animals - BBC News

[@leafblade2636]

This is one of the things I hoped AI would help with. I feel we really need to better understand the other organisms that share this planet, and a tall ask, adapt to make choices that benefit them as well as us.

[@chasefloberg2003]

True

[@justinunion7586]

That’s not a tall ask, that’s a titanic ask. Western nations understand humans more than they understand anything else yet still destroy other nations for resources and energy.

[@AFROJOE2323]

We need a full length documentary on this not a 4 min video

[@KC-cb7ov]

There’s one on dolphins. You might have to search for dolphins language. It’s pretty old and the thumbnail is a lecture room. It changed my perceptive on how I view animals as more like humans. Good luck lol

[@christophercooper6731]

Believe it or not, most KZbin users would prefer to watch a four minute video.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Why, this didn't tell us anything We didn't know, I dont know why He is so shocked to know that bats have a name or call for every individual the same as birds. Explain how that is a revelation, how else did they think bats know whose there mate and offspring?

[@KC-cb7ov]

@@HOLLASOUNDS majority of people don’t know this. Otherwise we would care more for these “creatures” or better yet sentient life.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@KC-cb7ov True but I eat meat so have to be realistic, raised a meat eater and I would hunt an animal to eat it.

[@Anton_Sh.]

Bats having individual names in the group is an amazing knowledge.

[@pyerack]

I think that's the biggest discovery if true. It shows that they've got an understanding of what an "individual" is.

[@plarion12]

Correct me if I'm wrong: If you create labeled data for training the machine, it will only be able to detect what was labeled. Therefore, it is limited by what we already know and can't really tell us NEW information about their interactions.

[@yahiiia9269]

You are exactly right. You would need an AI that combines all data about everything we know about the world and our universe so far to allow the AI to make complete, precise translations. It would also have to "smell" the bats, see the body temps and more for fully precise data. This is a very simplistic ai model and is still limited by humans.

[@clockpenalty]

Not really. The magic happens when the AI figures out patterns that link labelled data in ways that those doing the labelling couldn’t have predicted. The AI can then “generate” novel translations- it’s the core of the reason why deep learning is getting so much hype today: the fact that after being trained on human labelled data, it derives insights the humans couldn’t see.

[@SameenIslam]

To extend this work, they need an unsupervised learning approach that will be able to separate all the different modes of interaction. Once that’s done, they can perform clustering and associate the known patterns with their observed behaviour. This will probably leave a few clusters that are unknown to us humans. But they could use generative AI to play this back on a speaker and observe how the bats responds. From this, we should be able to correlate the stimulus-response and label the remaining classes by hand. This is how I would approach this work today, given the current state of the art for AI.

[@CAM-fq8lv]

And what about their famous hallucinations.

[@Alasterius41]

@@clockpenaltythat is assuming that the labels were correct to begin with.

[@TheBHAitken]

I just want a translator for my cat.

[@williamkeen5755]

Are you sure about that?

[@panzrok8701]

I dont need one because its not hard to guess what he wants. Its food most of the time.

[@ggyyo5099]

​@@panzrok8701indeed

[@camstanley]

what if it secretly hates you and has been telling you this whole time

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Ok Here it is 1 I want food, 2 Clean My litter tray, 3 pet Me please, 4 leave Me alone, 5 let's play, 6 welcome home, 7 I dont like that.

[@richardjohnson5529]

If humans could understand what animal's are saying about humans they would say they are the most cruelest animal on Earth

[@MonsterMacLLC]

A quote from “Planet Of The Apes” comes to mind... “Stupid humans” First thing I teach my 🐈 cats actually😺

[@christiroseify]

How do you figure?

[@richardjohnson5529]

@@christiroseify takea wild guess

[@wizzenberry]

animals dont have the rational brain parts to "think" anything, its automated modulation

[@christiroseify]

@@richardjohnson5529 There's no guessing involved, you just answered the question. Have a nice day...

[@stevenschilizzi4104]

This is really fascinating! I wish this team and its collaborators full success with their research goal. Are there other teams doing similar work with whales, elephants, birds etc.? Imagine! Future zoo or natural park visitors may one day be able to wear headphones with audiosensors and walk along and understand what chosen species are saying to each other. This may have a major impact on how much humans respect not only animal species, at least mammals, but also their habitats that allow them to survive. In this sense, such research has become urgent.

[@TheSingularityReport]

yup! here's a video in regards to whales kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqHLaoKbgM-aadk I wouldn't be surprised if someone is working with elephants as well. It's super interesting to think about what might be possible one day soon.

[@aggrayngaya5541]

That would be awesome .

[@martramT]

I agree that this type of research is not only great but almost necessary to our cohabitation with other species as we move forward. Research always shows that "[any animal species] is more intelligent that we initially thought", no surprise, not much more than about a century ago people were still describing other humans as beasts, and now huge industries depends on animal exploitation. The more we understand animal intelligence, for sure zoos could try to profit from it, but I'm hoping animal captivity, other than rescue, will be less commonly accepted

[@rakhmanoshakbayev2419]

@@martramT Yes I agree both of your comments are so well put

[@harvestcanada]

Pity they can't talk to their own human neibourghours. Another tricknological nonsense to harm other human beings. If the BBC was ever consistence it would science reports in Africa and central and south America.

[@RayMak]

This is a huge breakthrough

[@maryrabelo.s.wagner8346]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@chinesesparrows]

actual batman

[@wamwan3720]

Covid 20 coming up

[@featherfiend9095]

I was waiting for this moment for years ever since I learned of Deep Learning (the type of AI that has been giving all the hype for the last several years). Glad to see others have recognized the immense opportunity as well.

[@justgopro8511]

Keep up the good work. Not only is it interesting to try to understand what animals are saying what is the context of what they're communicating? But your research, I'm sure somewhere along the line will help to secure the safety of the species and other species!

[@macult]

If they’re using sounds to communicate that means they have a language, if they have a language that means they can share ideas instead of just living according to their instincts and following nature, but it’s definitely not a language we’re built to interpret

[@SN-sz7kw]

This is the first use of AI that doesn’t scare me. Fascinating.

[@sheikhmehran2529]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, ‎“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! The Hour will not be established until wild animals speak to people” ‎(Tirmidhi 2181)

[@katzi1111]

Yap ... "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! The Hour will not be established until predators speak to people and until the tip of a man's whip and the straps on his sandal speak to him, and his thigh informs him of what occurred with his family after him."

[@EcstasyLive]

what does this mean​@@katzi1111

[@MonsterMacLLC]

I am hoping that equipment that enables persons with disabilities communicate with, may be adapted for talking to service, companion, and wild animals alike! Great work! I wish I had my best friend Madeline the cat with me to show you what my state screwed up for us three years ago!

[@cipher3966]

These models are easier to build than you think. I have made one that recognises some hand signals and basic sign language and am hoping to make it type for me without keyboard. You don't necessarily have to be a computer genius to build them

[@jerrybayles6360]

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[@jerrybayles6360]

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[@jerrybayles6360]

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[@Four69420]

Sign of day of judgement may allah grant us jannah

[@jamesmeaden9227]

Really don’t like bats , got a phobia. But this was interesting to listen too . Another example we’ve found that animals are far smarter then we give credit

[@jakel8627]

You racist sob 😭

[@BroTrollington]

Can’t wait to tell the Raccoon to stop getting into my trash. He’ll just go 👁️👄👁️

[@drillmack]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kayzinnyein8967]

this is really stunning

[@CrisTina-dx8rh]

Super interesting! I love seeing people who are passionate about understanding our world better in order to improve all our lives.

[@Awesomefishingvideo-bb2tf]

It's amazing ever

[@Althar93]

Missed opportunity to call oneself Batman. Pretty interesting project thoug!

[@kx1490]

I want to know what birds are saying because I love watching them 😂

[@natestuff]

Wow this is amazing

[@Man.from.the.90sgeneration]

Science makes everything easier

[@2flight]

this is a really good use of technology. I doubt the sounds bats make will translate well into human language, but AI may be able to hear connections and make sense of it.

[@sam04019491]

Don’t have “in video pop up links” displayed whilst the video is still running. Wait until the very end of the video.

[@Temporal-Anomaly]

One word sums it up: WOW!

[@JustinHalford]

The catch appears to be that we need a deep understanding of the communication patterns in order to annotate training data. It doesn’t appear to listen to novel sounds and readily decipher them - though it is physically possible with perhaps a foundational model approach as there are human experts who have done this already, proving it a tenable informational problem.

[@Adam-qu5uk]

End of times. Prophesied that Animal will speak in the future. Ai would only be the logical explanation

[@kiljoy100]

Bat recording: Hey baby? you up?

[@埊]

Renlei being able to speak to Wulei, a revolutionary step towards shijie zhi lianmeng, simianbafang shengli.

[@farmiap]

The bat in the end was super cute👍

[@SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG]

Where's that News At 10 Presenter I can't say the name of!?!?

[@adrianlouw2499]

Some of the topics the BBC does not want us to discuss in the comment section: Prince Andrew Australian war criminal SAS war crimes disgraced BBC presenter Andrew Tate Who can add to the list?

[@mirzasafiquemiah1740]

Amazing

[@dianefolan1066]

Super, fantastic. What an opening for researchers, feels like things will move much faster in this field. Good luck

[@thetruthsayer8347]

Professor Yossi about to become the next Dracula 😂😂😂😂

[@Heidi1466]

Absolutely amazing

[@ouroborostechnologies696]

It's literally nothing

[@julianna5186]

“in the end the computer will be able to speak the language, to understand what they say to each other”. Finally. But do we want to tell them anything and do they want to tell us.

[@HelloThere0414]

Yes... Bats all like to do gibberish speaking to themselves. But if they need our help they certainly would want to talk to us. We need to talk to them also. To ask can they move to another location because they smell. They have no idea how they annoy us with their smell and their noise because we cannot tell them. All they know is when people bang pots and pans and make huge noise in their backyards to scare them away. But they do not know what they have done wrong! So yes, we need to talk to them. In the beginning of creation Adam named animals and they were his friends. He talked to them. After he sinned, disobeyed God, the animals became wild and enemy. Same with the plants. Thorns and thistles and weeds arrived. Prior to that only perfect flowers and trees. If man had not sinned then we would have not had this animal communication breakdown. So scientists are trying to restore the breach back to normal. One day God will fix this problem and return this earth to perfection.

[@mashiurchowdhury8536]

Very progressive research. I think if this is fully successful than preservation of wildlife and understanding animal behaviour will have be much more easier. Best of luck professor Batman 🦇

[@scipioafricanus4875]

Fantastic positive use of A I

[@maron3008]

生態学をAIを使って研究するという視点がいいですね。

[@Calydiamond]

This is so amazing 🎉

[@tazkq]

The development of AI is insane. The changes is freaking rapid that we can litetally expect everything to happen. Now this AI is being built. One day, or just a moment from now, maybe there's an AI to allow us to talk to dead human. Like using their memory as a data and use that data to interact with us. Who knows? AI is getting crazier and crazier, and at this moment, everything can happen.

[@muuuuuud]

Its why a few big people want to hold it down, their monopolies will be threatened from every end. We're entering the era of personal industries for all. :3

[@mignonJK]

It will be called Amadeus.

[@christiroseify]

So you're saying then we can be like god, right? Have you ever done a study on the Tower of Babel? Do you know what the serpent said to Eve? Have you ever read the Book of Revelation, the Book of Daniel, or Ezekiel, or Zacheriah? Because you are saying everything the Bible warns us would come and to reject fervently...

[@amedsheeran7193]

Bro your first thought was talking to dead people 😂😂😂wtf

[@muuuuuud]

@@christiroseify We're in 2023, those bronze age superstitions brought about by primitive cognitive misconceptions are of no value today.

[@desigirlBea]

I think the bat was telling us to stay away as he/she has Covid lol

[@satudiotv]

Imagine if we achieve to finally talk with animals and can exchange each other information that we might not know of.

[@scisfoodsucks]

or the ants that lived millions of years

[@sandro-nigris]

Fantastic!

[@geoffbirchall7552]

What about bats and covid?🤔

[@tinabarruth7110]

It's really interesting. Even with dogs will be more amazing❤

[@veloran]

exciting, you shouldn't doubt that!

[@josesantos2603]

Sabiá-laranjeira bird has a complex system of language. It would be a good way to start.

[@okayimbackwhateverjones]

This is SO COOL!!!

[@BenvanBroekhuijsen]

Finally the real Batman

[@mohideenirfan4824]

What will be the use case of this?

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

To finally find intelligent life on this planet

[@davea6314]

I'm Batman! 🦇 Can you understand my bat-signal without alerting the penguin🐧?

[@gageracer]

Uhhh this is not AI in the sense it has intelligence. This is using Machine Learning to categorize the sounds they recorded. I know ML is not the hot topic so media uses AI as the new halo word but it's becoming more and more stupid if you know a little bit about all this.

[@cortster12]

It's not AGI, but in every sense of the term it is absolutely narrow AI. I don't know what else you want neural networks to do to be classified as AI. It's artifical, it does very narrow tasks, and it does so through very narrow intelligence.

[@alexgonzalez8904]

Some people can’t even communicate with their own children but we can talk to animals 😂

[@krunkle5136]

Animals are lucky in that they don't have language on the level of humans. They miss out on all the various deceptions, spins, labels and other hangups that aren't a blessing really.

[@bradleymcdonald6273]

“It’s a bit darker than yesterday “Yeah, looks that way” “Yep” “Echo!” “Echo, Echo, Echo” “Hey, that’s cool, let me try” “ECHO!” “ECHO, ECHo, ECho, Echo, echo” “So what were we talking about again?”

[@bombokkleart]

The guy's gone batshit crazy 😅

[@imansharafi5587]

That is not language. that is called a communication system. Language has distinct features like creativity and displacement. What they have is more like the time you blush. You tell inadvertently that you are embarrassed.

[@Finduski]

So they pretty much tell A.I what the sounds mean and acts like A.I can translate what the bats are saying even tho they literally typed the words there

[@Dradeus]

You seem to have no idea how an AI is created. It always starts with giving samples so the AI ​​can learn until it can do more and more complex tasks. It starts with the AI ​​recognizing that they are talking about food to exactly what information they are conveying. The humans teach the Ai in the beginning until it eventually learns itself and overtakes the humans.

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

@@Dradeus overtakes,,,

[@thetruthsayer8347]

@@Dradeusbut how will AI learn if we are not even sure what the animals are actually telling each other? If we teach AI wrong it’s going to produce dangerous results at some point.

[@Dradeus]

​@@thetruthsayer8347 You observe the animals, their behavior and the sound they make. Then you do that a few thousand times and feed that to the AI. Even if there are wrong examples, the AI ​​learns by comparing which ones are wrong. With AI it is always important to have a large database. Then the AI ​​has understood the basic behavior of the animals and you can study more complex behavior with the help of the AI.

[@ArXivExplained]

@@Dradeus exactly

[@rishovmondal1524]

Can this be generalised across animal kingdom

[@nostromo7928]

You don't need AI to "talk to animals." All you need is yourself. Keep your mind and heart open in love, compassion and friendship and communicate with them through feelings and through your 3rd eye. We all have the ability to do this. Anyone who takes the time to build a close relationship with an animal friend already knows this.

[@ashdang23]

what?

[@pedronchoxgrc19]

Bro ai is needed. Dont closed yourseld in a room.

[@nostromo7928]

@@pedronchoxgrc19 Hello 🙂 I didn't mean that AI can't improve our lives, only that in this case it is unnecessary because we already have the innate ability to communicate with animals through our 3rd eye which is our Pineal gland located in the center of our forehead just above our eyebrows. We are born with the "inner technology" so there is no need to construct an external technology, which is what we've done with many of our technologies. Phones for example are unnecessary because we are born with the latent ability to communicate telepathically. All we have to do is learn to use this ability. Everyone has experienced many times thinking about someone and then they suddenly get a phone call from that person. We tend to blow these kinds of things off and call it "coincidence" but its not. Or suddenly we start thinking about someone and in a minute or the phone rings and its that person and you say "I was just thinking about you!" I generally tell them "I KNEW it was you!" because I DID know. But when we blow it off we lose the chance to explore why this happens. We are capable of far more than we realize through our minds, thoughts and feelings. Much of these abilities are activated through meditation and developing self awareness. 🌿

[@supremercommonder]

This is a prophecy in Islam regarding the end times when humans will be able to talk to animals

[@Danish-ft2ed]

And the fact that israel is doing this makes it even more relevant

[@stinkymccheese8010]

Am I the only one who saw this and immediately thought of the “Rick and Morty” episode where Rick gives Morty the ability to understand what animals are saying only to end up having to relocate to another plane?

[@ali09gaming58]

Le bat: it wasnt me who started that disease

[@munafghori4052]

Can ai listen and understand the sounds and thier meaning.

[@MonsterMacLLC]

I think it is improving to the point of seeing slight variations of accent, which eventually will lead to context.

[@bassoonlim8628]

Omgosh!! Batman begins

[@skakvac]

This is one of the prophecies of prophet Muhammad: Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! The Hour will not be established until predators speak to people and until the tip of a man's whip and the straps on his sandal/shoe speak to him, and his thigh informs him of what occurred with his family after him." Grade: Sahih (Darussalam) Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2181

[@은규이-o8h]

The bats are so cute!

[@ElizabethSzalek]

Cool spaciousness.

[@lucienmontandon8003]

he literally is batman

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

Too short

[@tedcrilly46]

lads, that prck with the net is back. - a bat

[@1TigerAce]

Ladies and gentlemen….. the NEXT!….. BATMAN!

[@caesar7734]

Or Morbius

[@franciscocz8384]

People don't even understand each other well enough, and we want to understand animals!! 🤣

[@avicohen2k]

Cataloguing general topic of speech or sound as actually understanding or communication is a bit of stretch. They make sounds, humans catalogued them by type. Machine rematches sound to catalogue. It's not AI. It's not Talking as we can't talk back in a meaningful way and I'm not sure this will allow us to do so any time soon.

[@annettepayne822]

How exciting!!!!

[@davisoaresalves5179]

Nobel to that man

[@ayona208]

The *GPT66X* is Amazon's crowning achievement in innovation, and it's set to change the world. Don't let this monumental opportunity pass you by - get involved and be a part of the future.

[@moritzlaszlo3115]

Dude! Stay away from Bats! Nobody needs COVID 23😅

[@soreeyez]

They'll one day take humans to court for animal abuse. 🙄

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

2:10🎯

[@ouroborostechnologies696]

Misleading and clickbait. It's just processed data with labels we already understand.

[@daveking3494]

It would be great if we could hear the bats, but the silly sine wave music is way too loud!

[@jeffbucksnort]

We need more AI to translate animals and plants

[@sidogga1234]

Batman wants to talk to you

[@MarcBienenfeld]

this is so cool also i think i know who this guy's favorite superhero is

[@asmith9140]

its really interesting except when they tell. us to bugger off and stop meddling

[@RelyeaRonnie]

How do you say COVID in bat ?

[@ludekfierlinger4156]

Good idea to start with bats... With mantasis not so ... Harder to separate mating and eating sounds ....

[@8rboy]

This could potentially turn many people into vegans in my belief

[@grerovambrozoyuz9426]

Yes it will. Because we already understand the animals. That they beg for mercy not to be killed.

[@delphinidin]

Add bats to the growing number of species that use names....

[@ignorasmus]

Science is awesome!!❤

[@natalievu4399]

Imagine one day, we can all communicate with animals. I hope it will be at the same time meat grows in laboratories.

[@christianloeckinger17]

How is this AI? Isn’t it just cross-referencing noises with actions?

[@featherfiend9095]

So in the above case it is learning more about those interactions and able to make inferences that map sound to actions. But it’s generalizable because not every possible combination of noises was the algorithm given but instead the algorithm was able to make inferences on sounds it never heard before and still accurately categorize them. We humans are the same. We are both predicting “machines”. We aren’t uploaded with all knowledge , we instead use past experiences to aid us in making inferences in new situations.

[@featherfiend9095]

Yes but no. The key idea behind this AI (known as Deep Learning, specifically) is that it trains on data to discover novel patterns in that dataset. You have to first train it and know the answers for that smaller dataset but in the process of doing that it picks up on patterns we humans wouldn’t have even recognized. Then we throw it data it has never seen before (once the training process is complete) and it is able to be quite accurate in those scenarios too. It is truly learning, not just performing some lookup on a table.

[@christianloeckinger17]

@@featherfiend9095 thanks for the extensive answer!

[@adojck]

I would be very happy to translate what my cat is meowing about. Love the idea!

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

Trust me, you dont want to know what your cat is saying. They attack where it hurts

[@nanawang4618]

bro wants to be batman