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How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bird: "I don't know man, shit's fucked"

Jeff Bezos: "Damn, you right. Pollution going down tonight!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wouldn't birds* mostly be like: "Get the fsck out of my forest you mofos, unless you're female and willing, then come here and bend over!"

( * and many other animals, but mostly birds)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes, this is very exciting, and AI that's being used for a valuable research.

I wanna be able to talk with cats, raccoons, possums, and (worship) octopuses

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Maybe we should pump the brakes a bit, mr Deep

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wanna be able to talk with cats

and (worship) octopuses

Give Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (and its sequels) a read. Spiders, octopi, and... other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, I love billy and bunny, and all those speech buttons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Given where we are with LLMs, it actually feels like AI would make communication with animals very feasible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How talking with animals would change our world … by someone who has real expertise in this subject here to tell you what’s what. Not a topic to be discussed over joints and whiskey, nope this is a serious topic that only Mr Expert On The Sociology of Interspecies Chitchat is qualified to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't we need a validator of some sort? To teach the ai when it's doing something right? I wonder how you train an AI on something you can't do yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I thought about ai talking to animals and i think at first level we will be limited to read behavior, mood, emotion but we will still miss their identity and potentially dreams, deeper opinions.

Note: i didnt watch the vid, would prefer to read an article about it.