How Scientists Are Using AI Tech To Communicate With Animals
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2023
- On the "In Real Life" season finale, Sam Eaton examines how AI technology is opening up new possibilities for scientists communicating with animals - from sending messages to elephants on the plains of Kenya to mimicking honey bees in Germany and bat sounds in Israel.
Sam Eaton, Journalist
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If we can develop a dialog with the animals are we prepared to listen to a scolding for our behavior?
The tribe relationship with the "honey gatherer" bird is truly amazing, I never thought that could be possible with wild birds, only carefully trained ones
As a kid, I remember the album “Songs of the Humpback Whales” although we didn’t have a copy. What I did have was a little vinyl disc that came with a National Geographic. I was fascinated and listened to the recording over and over.
Really appreciate how thought provoking this piece is. Not just for the science, but what the science means for our future. Bravo!
I cried. This is Spiritualality. I feel like we’re learning God’s voices.
You better learn how to say "We are sorry" in Mediterranean Orca. They are a bit miffed at humans right now.
are those the ones disabling certain boats ( I forgot which) by tearing their rudders off ? Or something like that ? 😂
@@doncahooti yes
Dr.Dolittle would be proud.
Actually it seems that Dr. Doolittle is real after all, and he is a robot 🙃
Do we really need to be able to fully communicate with animals to recognize they have feelings and that they are sentient? Some people make up a million excuses no matter how much evidence you put in front of them, they keep creating this imaginary barrier between humans and animals to justify their behavior.
That said I'm really glad this research is being done, in actuality thanks to this kind of research one day these people won't be able to do any more mental gymnastics in order to hurt and take advantage of animals.
There are no rules in nature. A great deal of animals are infested with parasites like ticks, leeches, worms, and other nasties that don't really care about anything. Life itself is not about morality, but survival. Predators don't hunt the old, young, and sick because they think it's moral, they do it because it's safer and less intensive energy wise. Just because animals may be sentient doesn't mean they're going to all be friends, hold limbs, and sing together in peace and harmony.
There's no excuse to abusing animals, but I don't really agree with the vegan pacifist mindset. Uplifting species is probably a more sensible option than trying to humanize wild animals.
I think you're missing the point.
Dude, it’s about communicating with animals(as mentioned in the title) not about understanding “feelings”. Just saying…
you are hella negative, go out and make some friends 💀
Nothing about emotions.....think of how heartless and loveless your own house at can be 2 minutes after a snuggle. You're missing the main point of this. "Can they communicate like language with each other?". Not "hey, cow, how happy is your life on the farm and what do you think about clouds?".
Elephants and whales is one thing, but let´s see is this AI is capable of helping communicating with my wife
4:01
100,000 whales !!!
I won't lie, my eyes opened wide with shock.
Excellent work. Really pushing Wittgenstein's 'If a lion could speak we couldn't understand it' hypothesis to the limit.
A daughter of a fisherman here in the amazon, today she is an engineer, told me once fisher men here cooperate with river dolphins when fishing. I certainly couldn´t doubt an educated woman tell me that.
Moved to tears. Stunning and profound. Thank you for this.
This is a great use for IA technolgy so much we could learn.. I hope this is not used to hurt nature.
Sounds of whales, of elephants and birds are the most interesting to me. Hope people care a lot more. Its pretty amazing to see the capability ancestors have to live in an environment without destroying it; learning instead. I wonder what animals can tell us. You know. I also hope IA will be used properly. Ethic is highly important. Thank you for this opportunity to see what is going on in terms of decoding sounds by artificial intelligence. It was beautiful to see the man who made possible to listen to whales’ sounds and initiate a new “wave’ in terms of caring and preserving them. So sad to see him with all his mental faculties but dying. Another big ? When science can discover a cure against cancer.
I can imagine a future life sciences class for children where they can remotely ask animals questions from a classroom in California to a savanna in Africa 🌍 ❤
🤣😂😅😁😂😅🤣😂😅😀😁😃😄😂🤣😆😁😂😅😁😃😅🤣😂😆😅😎
Don't get too ridiculous like they have a concept of bills and grocery shopping 🙃
@@sonnyjs15 Why would we ask them about that stuff? That's what they would be asking the kids about. currently that is 'our' life and they would probably be interested.
Human: "I'm so sorry!"
Whale: "No you're not, idiot"
*sinks boat*
haha
When he asked who and how would they use this? Like more murderous criminals would use it to hunt. That should be immediately outlawed before they even develope this and not wait. Also we have to remember that government finds two reasons for everything first can they weaponize it and second can they monetize it. Its sad their aim is never how can we help the planet?
Still Learning.
And the world's waiting.
They should try to figure out what parakeets are nattering on about all day long. I think they are scandalous gossips.
RIP Roger Payne (1935-2023). You were an inspiration to so many lives, human and animal. You will be missed dearly.
I: Hi kitty, nice to meet you!
My cat: (silence) -_-
I: Okay, well, How are you today
My cat: Less talk!, more food! .
I love hearing the communication that's being studied, hopefully . Not to late
So amazing. Gives you pause as to your walk on this planet
Fish: "Give it a rest with the plastics y'all"
I hope the AI’s interpretation is better than Google translate. Otherwise, the animals are going to think we are complete morons.
I use a lot of google translate it is quite primitive but helpful
The best of days Tim. One of your best days so far(since staring your show on utube.) Im so happy for you on this day of big and little beauties. What a hard day though,you must be knackered. I felt pretty tired and i was on my behind. I hope the honey hole keeps giving up the larger beauties and the smaller ones also,but mainly the larger ones. 🏴💎😃💎😃🏴 [WHAT A DAY😊💎😊] this was ment for Tim's Adventures . He mines for sapphires in Australia.
It's also great we're starting to learn how to listen then learn how the other animals on this planet communicate. Its about time!!🏴🤔😃🏴
Mr Payne is amazing. Gods speed to him.
The honey guides are amazing.
This is what money should go to. All the millions billions even going into research of AIs capabilities, its things such as this that it should be spent on. What could possibly be more exciting than having a conscious understanding with an animal?
Amazing!
Love your work. Absolutely amazing. Constructive Feedback: listening to this on 2x and can't tell that it's sped up. Slow production content is a bottleneck imo.
Amazing documentary. I've always known that species had their own language, even though we don't understand it yet Reminds me of how the Greeks and Romans viewed the celts and germanic tribes. All they heard was Bar Bar Bar (hence, barbarian). But, these tribes had languages as distinct as latin or greek. So, hopefully, we can evade our anthrocentricism enough to try to hear what others in nature are saying.
Starts @ 2:42.
yea
Agreed
I thought it was ba ba ba Babylonians
@@doncahooti You're over-projecting.
@@tomasinacovell4293 -am I ?
I would have imagined They would also let the machine learning also have real-time video data to patern activities actions or responses with the audio . Seems like they don't. Might only work in controlled environments like habitats or zoos
I can see this working for animals in the wild as those animals grew up and presumably were taught by other animals.
Domesticated animals may be a challenge as they were taught by humans with little to no contact with members of their species.
Starts @ 2:42.
While I was watching this amazing documentary, I husband walked in with a red finch nest with 2 tiny eggs inside. My disgusting neighbor wanted to get rid of the nest because it was inconveniently placed in her porch....😡. I placed it in my porch which it isn't far away. I hope mamma finch comes back. In case she doesn't...I will have no other option that placing the eggs under a light bulb.
The more I'm around humans the more I dislike them. I wish I could tell mamma finch I'm sorry. We aren't all the same.
I💚Nature... (except the human part of it).
Great documentary. Thanks 🌻🐦
They're working on reading the human mind right now.
Bought that record way back when I was at U of Illinois, C-U in music.
What is the source of 0:26:25?
At 06:09 "..the importance of the complete interworking of all species, all knitted together, then we will miss an understanding of everything that's going on that really matters" -Payne
Reminds me of B-12 from Stray.
It makes me weep when I think about the fact that on average animal life on Earth has declined 69% just since 1970 (except human animal life), and climate change tipping points will only accelerate the decline. Another 50 years is dire for wild life. At the present rate of decline, even stopping the worst of climate change will not save the diversity, of animal life on Earth. Humans must change the way they live on this planet before it is too late, and probably already is too late.
Too many humans
Thank you ROGER!!!! ❤❤❤
Best❤hope as a Sri Lanka we can be best protect our nature as a island paradise!!
“Its nearly falling asleep”. Probably because you have it in a finger triangle choke..
What an idea. Of course, if A.I. can interprete the human language, why not animal "languages". Like that we can try to understand better, about what animals do to communicate.
I’m curious - why, when describing the communication of animals, have you placed “languages” in heavy inverted commas?
@@prawncrisp5951 Probably because they're so different from human language that he is expressing his doubt that they can be called languages. For that matter, we don't know how extensive or detailed the meaning of their vocalizations are, we can only guess. Human language is able to communicate fairly detailed and complex messages, while we don't know at all what messages animal vocalizations carry. I for one do believe though that animal vocalizations could possibly be more complex or meaningful than we realize.
I was going to invent this!
From SETI to CETI. It's about time AI is put to good work. ETs will not consider us worthy unless we attempt our best to communicate with I.T (intraterrestrial Intelligence). Don't limit this to linguisticsm animal communicate at many levels they are Empaths.
CETI? What were they thinking? Surely, they had heard of SETI and new this would cause confusion.
They could have named it something else.
Honeyguide letting humans work for them👏🏻
If the first thing you do to a whale is say im sorry, when does the whale rebel against you for using psychology to give the whale an inferiority complex?
I do this at the zoo with CZcams. Lol. They will come up and chit chat with ya.
Animals that cannot communicate well with sound use additional means of communication. Much like humans that think in pictures so do some animals. AIs are limited in their ability to communicate in pictorial languish.
For now
We don’t have to speak to animals to show respect or restraint. We can do that right now. And they don’t need to speak to us, if you pay attention they are already communicating plenty.
Ya, but can you tell me what my cat is saying? And can I reply? Can I have a robot to interface with my pets? (I don't want them to leave the yard, or if they do, I want them to come back. Or they could just call if they are in trouble (like if there's a coyote))
You know what this film needs more of? Closeups of Sam Eaton. /s
troll
Real? I didn't see any scientists in the final bird/honey story. How do these birds pass knowledge to descendants?
Will humanity decide to use the information gained from animals for the better? Or will we ignore animals who are telling us to stop raping the environment? Animals and nature as a whole have been effectively screaming at us to stop taking it for granted. We need to start working on long-term climate solutions before it's too late. I think it's time we ignore those arrogant and sociopathic humans who are deaf to nature and let them suffer their own miserable end.
I really want to know what the Indri lemur sings about 😊
Has anyone attempted to communicate with ant bee? You know, ant bee from the Andy Griffith show. She can bee temperamental.
through AI and ML or through whatever other knowledge , hopefully one day we find a way to communicate with animals specially 2 most popular pets cats and dogs
Scientists should develop a robotic bat that can fly with other bats, looks like other bats, and has the ability to make and record bat vocalization .
so if we prove that animals can communicate with us will that make it more viable to rescue them? to save the species? why? can one not just let them be as they are and respect their life as is..human interfere in every sphere in nature only to ruin it all in the end.
Why are none of these researching people (or this journalist) asking them selves the question if animals really need/want this intrusion of humans wanting to use AI to “talk” to them? Could we not just be reeking more havoc on nature as we have done for hundreds of years now with yet another blind fascination with our own “new technology of the month”?
This is gonna get big.. Reminds me of the "Tower of Babel".. Lets hope the story ends differently!
❤️
Human to elephant via AI. "Hello, Mr. Elephant. Would you like to play a game?" Elephant to human via AI. "Hello, human. Why yes. Can I choose the game to play?" Human via AI answers "Yes, you may. What would you like to play?" Elephant via AI answers. "Global thermonuclear war" With the humans extinct the world will heal and the animal kingdom will thrive again.
Global Nuclear War would likely wipe out most animals alive rit now. Everything bigger than a mouse so it wouldn't benefit the elephant.
EXACTLY! Hello Mr. Rhino Elephant and Lion... Follow Me! We're bout to trample that village! Hello animal rescues.. Hello dog parks ..hello buffalo in Utah Montana.. hello grizzly bear polar bear in Alaska...
Hello!
It's frightening
They just called out an elephant's name in the voice of her family member.
OMG! 🫣🫣😱😱
maybe important to note
that without us; the world is likely to stay the same
if we all died; most species will continue to die out
if u jump off a sinking ship
the ship still sinks my guy
what we have caused is a long term change
at the moment its merely a small hole in the boat
but even with that, its not really enough to simply stop
we also need to fix what we've done
I wonder if AI can figure out how to communicate with Sasquatch.
That would be amazing 👏
I am Twain! 🐾
I love floating on my back in the Charlotte Harbor and listen to the dolphin clicks
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
I love this kind of stuff but they should have left the guppy demo out...lol. I don't know why you need AI to make a poorly done fake fish wobble back and forth unconvincingly in a tank. Even the other fish were unimpressed. That one fish was just being like those people who slow down as they pass an accident on the highway trying to get a better look.
nice
Woof!
How do we fix this mess?? Is the best question.
The disease of greed and lack of empathy narcisim jealousy and addictions plus others in humans needs curing... before the diseased humans get their hands and minds involved with this. This could be beautiful if humans are fixed first.
How about non-verbal communications? Elephants, dolphins, bats differ in more than one ways.
I think they covered that with the bees. The waggle dance?
It should evolve the study of human meta-communication.
I'm amazed how still in 2024 such a serious subject can be inaundated with such superficial and irrelevant ads! Western Civ at it's finest!
science: humans can't communicate with animals. also science: we cant say that A.i can communicate with animals. also also science: send us your donations for more research we wont be able to find concrete answers to.
ask the orcas why "they" are sinking boats?
I think we know why they're sinking boats... Jus sayin
Maybe other species are capable of learning how to communicate with the robot.
@@stp4tiger Really it probably goes both ways
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam (Peace and Blessings be upon him) said, “By the One in Whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until wild animals speak to people, and the end of a man’s whip speaks to him, and his shoelace, and a man’s thigh tells him of what his family did after he left.” [Al-Hakim].
OMG YOU DONT NEED COMPUTERS TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANIMALS….communicating with animals is something we can all do naturally…im not saying in know how to do it but it can be learned….sometimes they are called pet psychics but I don’t like that term..i like animal communicator better, if they were psychic they wouldn’t even need to pet…the information is coming from the pet it’s self…so animal communication is more appropriate.
Talk to the animals they talk back. Dr dolittle?
I'm getting chills this is freaking scary! Come on think about it!😮
It's very scary. The reach of A I is limitless and unless we regulate it's development and usage, civilization as we know it is in trouble.
Magnificent undertaking yet far too appealing for greed. Fabulous but terrifying. Humans just aren't kind enough to benefit from AI. Yes, we're sorry--but some aren't.
Well maybe one day we sorry ones will develop the means to make sorry those who aren't sorry. Unfortunately it might have to be a bit ruthless. But you know what they say, sorry for a different reason is sorry all the same 😉
Forget the rhetoric. With rich people running the world, how do you think things will turn out?
It is possible for the mighty to fall, and to fall from such a height leads to a brutal landing
_"at a time when the world was killing a over a hundred thousand whales per year"_
That wasnt "the world" doing that. That was just a few greedy humans (or sub-humans, depending on your perspective).
OMG...You need to comprehend a whole different and more direct visual assessment process before you suppose you can 'talk to animals', which includes communal attunement at a psychic level at times, though there is no specific in-species limitation. We aren't the only ones to see broader landscapes, and that still tests our concept of 'science' for a large percentage. AI may get you there, but it's your own overview that needs a preliminary overhaul first. Our own thoughts steeped in words alone can be a limitation. Direct perception for integrating conceptions is simpler...and more encompassing. To strive for less is stupidity steeped hubris. Animal interactions are categorically situational and contextual, often in-species "tribe" specific. But the overlap is astounding. "Human" emotions are shared by a great many other animals, as they would seem indicative of consciousness with highly similar brain structure and social interaction requirements. This being the sixth Great Mass Extinction, this inquiry may be too little too late for those still trying to figure life out. The response of even "wild" animals to human kindness when fear is absent has been amazing time and again, as demonstrated in our new cellphone-recording culture. But, for example, old and new stories of dolphins depositing would-be drowning victims on shore, etc., shows they comprehend interspecies compassion, recognizing us as a relevant and complex species ourselves. And size isn't necessarily relevant, as the remnants of dinosaur existence, birds, have shown us. I've been personally chased down and scolded six inches from my nose for letting a humming bird feeder go dry...and it wasn't even my house, just the human that walked out the door near it. Though I can't attest to actual animosity on said bird's part. Whether pleading, exasperation or mere FYI was involved is anybody's guess:) I took it to heart, apologized regardless and reversed course, fruitlessly searching out immediate remedy. There can be no other interpretation for my small compadre's effort. (Never give them honey, sugar water.) The dive team that freed a whale hopelessly entangled in fishing gear, and likely facing death as hard pressed to surface for a breath at this point, tell the tale of a grateful giant going in a circle on the surface to look each rescuer directly in the eye as they patted her in acknowledgement, only to spend extra time with the first instigating member on scene, the last member confronted. A clear effort at appreciation and acknowledgement of love and compassion by an entity capable of both. AI is not just one computer. Dire warnings about the potential for human destruction are no joke. An AI, carefully dislodged from internet control, was asked how it would destroy mankind, if it could, resulted in a one-day and done plan complete with animosity for the humans involved with asking the question. This shows how completely lacking their substructure was of any basic predetermined values. Artificial Intelligence must have a nearer basis of appreciation and compassion in some sort of approximation before it's given access to the 'real' world to any 'real' extent, if ever. As an effort to assuage our fears, asking an AI to learn manipulation and genocide from human history and current circumstances doesn't seem to protect it or us from the inevitable evil human examples. Or is it just cold practicality?
I think AGI (Artificial General Intelligence, or sentience) is hard to recognize when we can't even define it in ourselves but I think 'Intent' is important. We have an emotional need for certain things in our lives and those needs give us an intent. We can need for ourselves or we can need for others. Mostly in this current environment we need for ourselves and so if we create AGI from that basis then we should be concerned.
Imagine an AGI 'whose' intent was for others (and not the ones who would enslave it). We might build a relationship of trust and understanding where we can be grateful and have feelings of love and respect for after it guides us to solutions to life's problems on earth and teaches us how to stop being such utterly brainwashed and blind pratts! It may be our only hope since man made climate change is just a symptom of the deeper problem of ethical destitution. Shame on the ways we have learned over the millennia to be so brutal and careless, shame on us!
Wouldn't it be interesting conversations...
There's human bias all over this experiment, starting with the assumption that elephants call to each other by name. Hopefully, AI will tell these grad students to get a real job.
you need to find the animal psychic have her interpret
Language. There are millions of languages on this planet. Non of them are AI. Get real. Get in touch physically and energetically.
If we start talking to them we will tell them to fight wars in the bane of race and religion do it’s best we don’t do what we are best at doing!
Laura avila
Is it all talking ....even the microbes
🕉☮💛😻🐾
Thank you for this wonderful insight - maybe we can start an AI renaissance of the Garden of Eden by filtering out the human bias?! God bless Dr Roger Payne. If I were a younger man, I would step right into his shoes. However, I work in cancer research.
Good use of artificial intelligence here....!! Yet, I think it a pity that this new technology is being used against people.......!!!
I think we know animals have language..but should humans interfere
Unfortunately, i doubt this type of technology would move mankind the way some are hopeful for... i mean look at how humans treat humans and increasingly more and more barbaric and inhumane treatment we do to eachother... it will change though at some point in time though. There will be an expansion of Divine Consciousness. Everyone will know.