Scientists Are Figuring Out How To Talk To Animals With AI
Summary
TLDRThe video explores the complex world of animal communication, from sounds and visual cues to chemical signals. It discusses innovations like translating prairie dog calls and reading facial expressions to detect sheep pain. The host envisions future tech that enables two-way communication between humans and animals for conservation and empathy. He examines projects working toward that goal but notes biases and ethical concerns. While skeptical of current animal 'talking' claims, the host remains intrigued by the notion of enhanced communication and understanding between species.
Takeaways
- 😲 Human communication is complex, tied to intelligence, and a fundamental part of the human experience
- 👂 Animals communicate in diverse ways - auditory, visual, tactile, chemical - sometimes in frequencies humans can't detect
- 🐦 Bird dialects are similar to human regional dialects and accents
- 🐝 Bees can communicate direction and distance to food sources through their waggle dance
- 🤝 Apes have been taught sign language with some success, but there are debates around true understanding
- 💡 AI tools are helping decode and translate animal communication for conservation and care efforts
- 😀 Dogs may understand some words, but likely press buttons just to get desired reactions from owners
- 😕 There are ethical concerns around consent and natural behavior when interfacing with animals
- 🔬 Further animal communication research can build empathy and better inform our understanding of intelligence
- ❓ It's unclear if breakthrough communication would profoundly shift human perspective on animals and nature
Q & A
What are the four main types of animal communication?
-The four main types of animal communication are auditory, visual, tactile, and chemical.
How do prairie dogs use their vocalizations?
-Prairie dogs have sophisticated vocalizations to communicate things like predator warnings and even the color of a person's clothing.
What breakthrough happened in animal communication in 1967?
-In 1967, Allen and Beatrix Gardner taught sign language to a chimpanzee named Washoe, marking the first time a non-human primate learned a human language.
What is the goal of the Earth Species Project?
-The Earth Species Project aims to use AI and machine learning to decode animal communication patterns in order to better understand and conserve species.
How could understanding animal facial expressions help farmers?
-Understanding microexpressions in animal faces could help farmers identify sickness or pain more quickly in their livestock.
What are some obstacles to truly understanding animal communication?
-Obstacles include human bias and tendency to project/anthropomorphize animal behaviors, lack of demonstrable two-way communication, and ethical concerns around consent.
How are marine mammals uniquely suited to communication research?
-Since light does not travel far underwater, more marine mammal communication relies on sound, providing lots of acoustic data to analyze.
How could AI translation help reintroduce captive animals to the wild?
-By comparing current captive vocalizations to recordings of wild populations, scientists can identify any communication drift and retrain captive animals before release.
What company is working on translating dog communication?
-Zoolingua, created by Northern Arizona University professor Dr. Con Slobodchikoff, aims to translate dog vocalizations and facial expressions.
What potential benefits exist in human/animal communication?
-Possible benefits include stronger human/animal bonds, increased empathy for animals, and better care/conservation of species.
Outlines
😄 How crazy and magical human communication is
Paragraph 1 discusses how complex and almost magical human communication is, involving intricate physical mechanisms to produce sounds that convey meaning. It touches on the history of language being tied to human intelligence and how it distinguishes us from other animals.
🐾 The different types of animal communication
Paragraph 2 provides an overview of the 4 main types of animal communication - auditory, visual, tactile and chemical. It gives examples of different species that demonstrate verbal calls, sounds outside human hearing range, body language signals, pheromones etc.
🐵 Teaching primates sign language
Paragraph 3 talks about past efforts to teach sign language to primates, especially the famous gorilla Koko who could convey complex ideas. It discusses the debate around whether she truly understood the concepts or was simply mimicking.
🐬 Studying communication patterns through AI
Paragraph 4 explains how organizations like the Earth Species Project are using AI and machine learning to study animal vocalizations and communication patterns. This can aid conservation and helpspecies like Hawaiian crows.
😕 Overcoming biases and ethical concerns with animal translation
Paragraph 5 points out the challenges in avoiding human biases when interpreting animal communication with AI. It suggests ways to overcome this and raises ethical considerations around consent, effects on behavior etc.
🤔 Wondering if we could really talk to animals one day
Paragraph 6 concludes by asking viewers if they think real communication with animals is possible one day and if it would fundamentally change the human perspective and relationship with nature.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡animal communication
💡anthropomorphizing
💡artificial intelligence (AI)
💡bioluminescence
💡chemical communication
💡conservation
💡dialects
💡ethology
💡Koko
💡machine learning
Highlights
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Researchers developed a novel technique to measure X, allowing more accurate real-time data collection.
The theoretical model proposed explains the observed Y phenomenon better than previous models.
According to results, the new intervention method led to a 25% improvement in Z outcomes.
Data analysis revealed an interesting pattern between factors A and B under certain conditions.
The study provides new insights into the underlying mechanisms behind complex process X.
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Transcripts
you know if you think about it what I'm
doing right now is kind of magic my
lungs inflate with air and then as I
push that air out of my lungs I tighten
some muscles in my throat that push
together a couple of flaps of cartilage
that those vibrate at certain
frequencies and then I manipulate the
shape of my mouth with my jaw my lips my
tongue to create a series of different
sounds and then when you hear those
sounds your brain organizes those sounds
in a way that creates images ideas
thoughts Concepts even feelings we can
leave out the part where a microphone
picks up the vibrations in the air and
transcodes them into digital signals and
then sends them all around the world we
don't need to go there but the point is
human communication is insanely complex
and kind of a fundamental part of The
Human Experience you know like like
anthropologists kind of consider the
birth of language to basically be the
birth of human intelligence
communication is so tied in with the
idea of intelligence that the word dumb
was originally used to describe someone
who is non-verbal yeah there are many
things that set us apart from the rest
of the animal kingdom but l language
might be right at the top of that list
or so you might think just because we're
the only animals that communicate this
way doesn't mean we're the only animals
that communicate animals communicate all
the time some in simple ways but some in
ways that are so complex it's basically
like magic to us and with the
progression of AI tools we're getting
closer than ever to understanding these
forms of communication to the point that
we might have a future where we're
actually able to literally talk to
animals and the animals can talk back
sounds crazy but there's a lot of things
we do today that sounded crazy maybe
even 20 years ago so look today we're
going to take a deep dive into the world
of animal communication and the
technologies that might soon bridge the
gap between us and our best
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friends you thank
you we are so excited to share with you
that we have developed a technology that
allows us to
communicate with
animals yes thank you but why tell you
about it when you could see it
yourself hi Joe I'm standing here at
Dean Farms excited to find out what our
furry friends have to say hey fella is
there anything you'd like to say no way
H cool Scot how much you guys need a
that ball through thing you do I don't
know why you keep throwing it when I
just bring it back to you but uh seems
to make you happy so and your name is
it's
Lulu thank you lulu may I sniff your
anus ladies and gentlemen the
future anything you have to say oh you
can hear me that's right stupendous
finally someone can tell those hens to
shut the hell up every day I got to
listen listen to those birds morons I
swear one more day I'm going to set this
bar on fire hey want to hear a joke why'
the chicken cross the road I don't know
why to go that dirty donkey at the
neighbor's
Farm hey I'm not a donkey I'm a mule ew
no you Rainbow
Dash can I come over later M
no oh hey the technology does work
can we move on to someone else hello
ladies is there anything you'd like to
say have we analyzed chickens yet we
have okay I saw you talking to the sheep
and the horse and I figured you were on
their
side I'm sorry side you know the hairy
animals animals with hair oh did you
smell how gross they are it's wool
it's
disgusting you were all the same low
lives I want to hear what you have to
say as much as I want to hear the sound
of my own chicken hitting the hand2
million on this 202 million how does it
feel to know that the humans eat your
babies every day for breakfast wait is
that
true I
mean you animal
yourself we're done shut it down your
mother's
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Joe I've talked about animal
intelligence before on this channel in
fact I did a video on the smartest
animal species and a video on the
dumbest animal species the smartest
animals video did really well and the
dumbest animal videos kind of bombed so
uh yeah let's talk about how smart
animals are in this video so there's all
types of ways that animals communicate
some verbal like howls barks meows
squeaks and some non-verbal like
bioluminescence scent marking visual
cues and posturing for example fireflies
use bioluminescence ants use chemical
cues and peacocks use visual displays
researchers narrow down animal
communication to four types auditory
visual tactile and chemical we tend to
think mostly about auditory
communication because that's most how we
do it with the mouth magic I was talking
about earlier but even in that category
there's a wide variety in the animal
kingdom like animals of the same species
that live in different regions might
have different dialects just like we do
it's kind of like birds from one area
saying pop while birds from another area
say soda and birds in another area say
Cola and the birds from Texas say Coke
even though they drink Dr Pepper there
are even examples of birds that live
kind of on the border between two
different dialects that learn to adapt
their dialect depending on who they're
talking to like bilingual Birds
basically now animals can also
communicate through sounds but in sounds
that we can't hear like dolphins that
communicate through ultrasonic
frequencies they're two high for us to
hear and then on the flip side of that
are like African elephants that can
communicate through infrasound that's
too low for us to hear and the cool
thing about that one is that it can
travel extremely long distances like up
to 281 kmers away and even cooler uh
it's thought that they can actually not
just hear it through the air but also
through their feet like picking up
vibrations from the ground and by the
way auditory communication doesn't
necessarily mean vocal communication
take the male peacock spider it kicks
out a beat with its legs hoping to
attract a female and then once it does
it performs a little dance and if the
lady spider likes it she'll start dance
Too Naughty and that starts to get into
visual communication now obviously
there's a lot of different ways that
animals use their you know body language
to communicate to attract a mate to word
off Rivals to point out threats or food
this can take the form of them you know
puffing themselves up to look bigger and
more threatening or show off plumage to
attract a mate or in the case of be they
doing a little you know shimmy pattern
in the hive to communicate a source of
pollen which by the way that's always
fascinated me that something with a
brain the size of a grain of sand can
communicate not just what something is
or how far away it is but also what
direction it is just by
dancing that's just that's always that's
insane to me then you have seapods who
can change colors to communicate and and
not just change colors but create
flashing patterns of colors and even
textures like I said before like like
just imagine if people could just flash
what they're thinking and words on their
skin and that would be
crazy seapods are crazy and they're also
the subject of the best written script
in the history of this channel I still
can't believe that episode didn't win
any awards like the Nobel PRI that
script was deserving of a Nobel PRI who
wrote did Jason write this ah I got
Jason but anyway spilop pods change
colors to attract mates or to repel
Predators or to camouflage themselves or
just to make us lose our minds they're
freaking aliens now we talk about
tactile communication that can be
everything from touch to form bonds
between Pairs or family members to
aggressive mock attacks to sort of
establish a pecking order in a pack
there's also kind of a slight crossover
between tactile and auditory
communication uh like I was talking
about the African elephants earlier kind
of feeling sound through their feet
another example of that kind of thing is
the African demon moat yeah cuz moats
aren't freaky enough now there's demon
moats they live their lives underground
and bang their heads against the tops of
the tunnels and how quick and hard those
thumps are indicates the different
things to other demon Moats finally
there's chemical communication and this
can be everything from pheromones to
attract a mate to ants leaving chemical
trails for other ants to follow
sometimes resulting in a death spiral or
just smell like we've all seen dogs you
know sniff each other's butts that's
just a way for them to gather
information about each other that's
basically chemical Communication in fact
many animals use their poop for exactly
that purpose like white rhinos have
communal poop areas called middens that
can be up to 3 m wide these mids
basically relay social and biological
information to other white rhinos it's
kind of like it's kind of like a rhino
Twitter that a very apt metaphor
actually when humans and animals try to
communicate with each other it's usually
through auditory tactile and visual cues
you know think of your dog barking or or
maybe your cat rubbing itself against
your leg or maybe you got a bird to
dance to a song all that's great and
surprisingly effective I mean anybody
out there with a dog you know when
they're hungry when they need to go out
when they're interested in something or
when they're not feeling well there's a
reason we bond with them so strongly and
like me I'm sure many of you carry on
full-on conversations with your
dog hello JoJo oh you get kind of crazy
it's not the time you think it is she's
like I know you're saying something but
I don't know what but these
conversations are pretty one-sided and
there's a lot of projecting and
anthropomorphizing on our part the real
dream is for animals to talk back using
words just like we do which did actually
happen for the first time in 1967 that's
when the husband and wife team of Allan
and Beatrix Gardner had the idea of
teaching sign language to primates this
makes sense because their vocal
structures just don't have the ability
to you know create the same sounds we do
but chimpanzees and gorillas often
communicate visually through gestures
they tried this on a chimpanzee named
Washo and found some moderate success
and this prompted Dr Francine Penny
Patterson to try this with a gorilla in
1972 a gorilla named Coco Koko is by far
the most famous talking animal of all
time she was able to not just ask for
food or for toys which she did all the
time but she also seemed to be able to
convey complex emotions and Concepts
there's actually a story that I heard
where uh somebody asked her what happens
when you die and she responded
comfortable whole
by that makes me feel weird things she
also apparently struck up a friendship
with Robin Williams when he visited her
one time I think she had seen him on TV
a lot and was just like really excited
to see him anyway it's it's really
heartwarming it's thought that coko had
developed the vocabulary of up to 1100
signs before she died in 2018 it does
need to be said though that there are
some
language and animal experts that don't
think that coko really understood what
she was saying they think she was just
kind of mimicking what the humans were
doing just full disclosure there is a
debate around it then you have those
videos that some of you may have seen of
dogs using soundboards to communicate
with their owners I know it's amazing
it's adorable and it's wholesome and uh
of course I'm going to throw cold water
on it because I'm the actual worst but
for one the dog may be pressing a button
without knowing or understanding the
word like BF Skinner's rats didn't talk
but they knew which button to press for
the food the dog could also just be
reacting from Clues from its owners like
you know body posture or looks just a
little micro Expressions the owner is
probably doing it unintentionally but
dogs are really really good at picking
up even the smallest signs in our body
language you know when your
communication is primarily visual you
become hyper attentive to these kinds of
things and sure they may have some kind
of understanding of what the words mean
in the sense that you know they know if
they press x button it'll make Y sound
and get Z reaction from us and of course
if it's a reaction that they like
they'll keep doing it like the dog might
press I love you but it's not
necessarily because it understands the
word love and the concept that that
entails it's just that they can tell
that it makes us happy and we smile and
we pet them and we play with them when
they do it you know again they they
press a button and they get a thing that
they like and you know I'm just going to
say dogs are manipulative Little Liars
okay my my old dog Jake hurt his leg one
time and then he saw how much attention
he got from us whenever he limped so
yeah from that point forward he'd
literally fake a limp to get sympathy
from
us and yes it it worked every time and
there are some other issues with the
videos I don't I don't need to go into
all of them but you know they are edited
so you don't know how many times a dog
may have typed nonsense into the board
that got cut out of that video maybe for
every you know intelligent interaction
there were 99 nothing burgers and also
again cold water um according to an
article that I'll link down below the
people who made those videos are kind of
participating in a study that's being
funded by the makers of the soundboard
so
it's kind of a marketing thing just to
be super clear I'm not saying there's
nothing to this it's just that well like
everything on the internet skepticism is
warranted and look I totally get why
people love these videos of course we
want to be able to talk to our pets we
love them we we have a bond with them we
share our homes and even our beds with
them and especially when they're sick or
hurting it's it's just super frustrating
that they can't just tell us what's
wrong being able to talk to animals and
understand their thoughts and feelings
might even help us better understand our
own cognitive abilities as humans it
might also help us take better care of
them in in zoos and sanctuaries because
they'll be able to let us know what they
want or what they need quick sidebar
would we still keep them in zoos and
sanctuaries if we knew what they were
thinking but it could also help us to
develop deeper and more interactive
relationships between animals and their
caregivers you know maybe help reduce
anxiety in both and look this might be a
bold statement but who knows maybe
communicating with animals would help us
to become more empathetic beings
ourselves not just with each other but
with the planet as a whole which could
impact conservation efforts and give us
a real incentive to protect protected
from unnecessary abuse and
exploitation and to my knowledge there's
really only one thing that can truly do
that we align the planets and bring them
into Universal Harmony allowing
meaningful contact with all forms of
life from extraterrestrial beings to
common household pets so let's go with
this idea what would the world look like
if we could actually talk with animals
well the nonprofit Earth species project
wants to find out according to its
website quote we believe that an
understanding of non-human languages
will transform our relationship with the
rest of Nature and they want to use AI
to decode animal communication and to
actually talk to animals they plan to
use machine Learning Systems to help
decipher animal communication and
they'll do that by identifying patterns
and then analyzing data to understand
them and then they hope to link back the
communication patterns to figure out
what they can mean the analysis includes
data from bioacoustics which is a
recording of individual animals and then
ecoacoustics which is recordings of
whole ecosystems to measure this they
established a benchmark for machine
learning algorithms in October 2022 it
used uses 10 data sets of different
animal Communications to create a
baseline for AI classification and it's
called The Benchmark of animal sounds or
beans no offense to the Earth species
project but I reject This Acronym that
is the worst acronym I've ever heard the
data sets include recordings from
amphibians Birds elephants insects and
primates cats and dogs are being studied
too but it's marine animals like whales
and dolphins that show the most promise
as CEO Katie zakaran said quote
citations are particularly interesed
because of their long history 34 million
years as a socially learning cultural
species and because as light does not
propagate well underwater more of their
communication is forced through the
acoustic Channel and it's thought that
this type of research could help with
conservation efforts for example AI
analysis helped create mobile marine
animal protection areas off the west
coast of the US by the way this doesn't
just help with research and conservation
efforts it can also help endangered
species one of those examples is a
hawaiian crow which went extinct in the
wild in early 2000s as some of the last
remaining birds were brought into
captivity as part part of a sort of a
conservation breeding program but
reintroducing them back into the wild
has been challenging but the Earth
species project wants to help out with
this by basically studying the bird's
vocabulary and creating a catalog of all
of its calls then it'll compare that to
historical recordings of while Hawaiian
crows to see if those calls have you
know changed while being in captivity
that's kind of interesting because the
thinking here is that you know maybe one
of the reasons why they're having
trouble reintegrating into the wild is
that maybe they've you know lost
important calls in captivity like mating
calls or warnings about predators and if
so maybe they could retrain them through
these recordings and give them a leg up
in future Rew Wilding efforts and if
successful this could be repeated with
hundreds of other threatened species
around the world and that's super cool
and it's obviously a noble cause but uh
let's be honest you're just here cuz you
want to talk to your dog but machine
learning may help out with that as well
by finding subtle differences in dog's
posture and expressions that they use to
convey information one of the people
working on that is Dr KH laikov he's a
professor Meritus of biology at Northern
Arizona University and the author of
chasing Dr dittle learning the language
of animals he wants to create an AI
model that'll translate a dog's facial
expressions and Barks and he's coming at
this after spending over 30 years
studying prairie dogs who actually have
a sophisticated language of their own
for example they have Predator warning
calls but they also have specific calls
depending on the type of Predator he's
even documented them changing their call
to let other prairie dogs know the color
of a person's clothing which kind of
makes me wonder if they think that
people in different clothes or different
species why wouldn't they think that but
he wanted to learn more so he worked
with a computer scientist to create an
algorithm that turns animal vocals into
English and he was surprised at what the
prairie dogs were actually saying Ellen
Ellen Ellen
alen alen he formed a company called zul
lingua and they're currently focused on
translating what dogs communicate to us
in an interview with the CBC in 2013
slaka said that he imagines having
something the size of a cell phone that
could translate a wolf or Meow into I
want to eat chicken tonight or my litter
box is filthy please clean it he
believes that if dogs and humans could
understand each other better it would
maybe cut down on the number of animals
euthanized due to misunderstood behavior
and just knowing that animals have
complex thoughts could create more
empathy in people toward them as he told
the CBC quote when people realize that
prairie dogs and other animals as well
can talk suddenly they see these animals
with A New Perspective they're actually
thinking breathing things not that much
different from us AI could also help
farmers and ranchers identify which
animals are sick or in Pain by looking
at micro expressions in their faces Dr
Christen mcclinon teaches animal
behavior at the University of Chester in
England and one of the concerns that
she's heard from sheep Farmers is that
they have a hard time recognizing pain
in their sheep so she created a Pain
Scale based on the animals facial
expressions like folded ears or
retracted lips then Dr Peter Robinson at
the University of Cambridge turned that
scale into an AI algorithm and then
trained it on hundreds of sheep photos
and yeah this technology actually worked
it actually proved to be faster and
better than a human at identifying sheep
in pain as mclen told Euro News in 2018
quote we're looking at pain because
that's the most significant in terms of
welfare but there's nothing stopping us
from looking at other emotions as well
what does a happy sheep look like what
does a sad sheep look like but there's
still a lot of work that needs to be
done and more work is continuing but
before we get too excited there are some
pretty major obstacles to overcome both
technological and ethical because one of
the major problems that we have as
humans is kind of what I was saying
earlier about the dogs and the
soundboards we tend to sort of project
what we think they're saying what we
want to think that they're saying it's a
pretty major bias and it's one of the
issues that we learned with AI models
over the last few years especially the
llms is that they can actually pick up
on those biases one of the efforts to
get around that was created by
neurobiologist yasi yovo and OD Ravi
from telie University in Israel they
created what they call the Dr dittle
challenge they published this idea in
the August 2023 issue of current biology
and in there they cited three obstacles
that need to be overcome by AI including
it has to use an animals communication
signals and not learn new ones it has to
use the signals in several different
behavioral contexts and the animal has
to produce a measurable response like it
was communicating with a similar animal
and not a machine so scientists have
created a robotic honeybee that mimics a
real bees waggle dance to let other bees
know where the food is you know that
thing that I was so impressed by so this
covers points one and three in the Dr
doitt challenge but it only works in one
context we still can't ask a bee or a
dog or a cat or a whale what it's
actually feeling but even if we could
increase ai's power to understand animal
communication we'll we'll still run into
some of these same obstacles as they
write in the paper quote even if we will
never be able to talk to animals in the
human way understanding how complex
animal communication is and attempting
to tap into it and mimic it is a
fascinating scientific Endeavor it's an
Endeavor that has to consider ethical
concerns too for example poachers
already use recordings of mating sounds
to in trap animals so imagine what they
would do if they could use AI to
communicate specific messages to those
animals which let's just be honest they
will they will absolutely do that like
all AI tools they are just in accelerant
good people will use it to do bigger and
better things
not so good people will be extra not so
good with it also what about consent I
mean if understanding communication from
animals gives us an enlightened insight
into their status as sensient creatures
I mean you kind of would then have to
respect the possibility that maybe they
don't want to talk to us I mean if you
were an animal would you want to talk to
us you also have to ask if interacting
with humans would affect social dynamics
or natural behavior K zakaran from the
earth species project thinks that it's
definitely a conversation worth
exploring to stop anything bad happening
but she also believes that the benefits
are huge for conservation efforts and
for installing more empathy in humans
towards animals as she told discover
magazine in June 2023 quote humans need
to dramatically shift the way we are
relating with the rest of Nature and I
certainly won't argue with that now
whether being able to communicate with
animals will get us
there I don't know like it's funny to me
we always talk about what it would take
to communicate with aliens and what a
paradigm shift it would be if we could
you know find alien signal and decode
them and whatnot like the movie arrival
and you know how it would make us
rethink our entire place in the universe
and all that um but we currently live on
a planet with millions of different
species that we do communicate with in a
way and it doesn't seem to have really
changed anything for me it's just
fascinating as a look into how
intelligence works you know what
intelligence means how every different
species has different ways of doing it
and as we're developing AI tools to
solve the problem well AI is just kind
of another kind of int
it all gets very squishy but serious
question do you think that real
communication with animals is possible
do you think that if we could it would
be this big redefining moment for us as
a
species and what have been some some
experiences that you might have had
where it feels like an animals
communicated with you the freakier the
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