@@LearningNew365 I doubt plants feel anything other than sensory stuff also bacteria is living. buf it feels nothing. but yes. I see where you are coming from
i think we should start with birds that understand the human language as well as similar bird species and they could tell us whether or not the ai translation is correct
She's such a dedicated and honorable scientist, It's not easy to give 50 years of hard work and studying animals in Africa. She loves animals and nature so much. There are not many scientists like her these days. Respect
Imagine going to all this trouble, and finding out some species just don't have anything interesting to say. Like how most morning bird calls are apparently variations on "MY tree! MY tree!"
There are bird calls and bird chatter. I suspect you're right about there being some standard bird calls, such as MY tree, Danger etc., but if you listen to two or more birds in close proximity you'll hear a completely different quieter complex sequence of chirps which may be communication.
I honestly expect something like "This, this, this, no, this. Threat!! Dog, outside, outside, outside. Aye, hot!" rather than a full intellectual conversation or debate.
@ranjitsharma5811 I've been trying to beat noita religiously for months now and I'm extremely shocked to see this comment here. It's pretty niche. Having said that it's probably a hitchhikers reference
@@HunterLawson_GameDevbut more than 5. We might have a version of the model in 5 but not a great one and not one you can slap on a collar and have it translate things. And not one that utilizes thought.... Maybe 15 to integrate the language model to the neural link projects
I apologise for, I do not remember the rest of the dialogue between the two pigs at the farm, and therefore am breaking the chain. But, I would like to show true appreciation, for you three maestros and the ones to come that have the dialogue memorised by heart. To conclude, "Brother, may I have some oats brother?" -"No brother, the tall skinny ones threw the oats to me". Long live the pig that has busted the secret of the tall skinny ones and their cruel doings.
Related but on another animal topic: Chickens will name and then use the name for each of their human caregivers individually, as well as different role call sounds for each chicken in their own flock. My spouse and I have our own names that were passed down from our former senior hen, who was our first chicken. We have 2 roosters who live indoors and came from another home, and they call us by the name they chose for us, which is different from the name our outdoor flocks call us. I'd love to be able to translate some of their other calls too, using a tech like this
@@shothastar thats cruel. Of course not. I share my chicken with them, like my mom taught me, and they are more than happy to share their relatives as a meal with me ♡
@@silent_advocate this is primarily what we keep them for, and use an age out system with a tiny chicken retirement home for them to live their lives until they are about to pass from age related issues. We use an avian vet to make sure they're not ill close to their passing date if we do eat them but I prefer Chicken of the Woods (a fungus) since most restaurants use this anyway and it's easy to harvest. We have brown and blue eggs which we can barter for more than brown, so those are for eating and using shells in place of road salt, grind it to use as calcium replacer etc and then our elderly birds are monitored until its time. Most actually get buried under their favorite tree. My favorites become their own new trees, like my Fluffernutter is a maple ♡
@@atomictraveller Our ears are not able to distinguish subtle variations in frequency (or even anywhere near the full range of most other species) nor some of the subtle variations in timing ...
this is such a great next step for AI, instead of obsessing over AGI. How good would it be to comunicate with animals, on the other hand, what would we say to the cows, chickens, or pigs haha
That would assume that animals would understand grammar. And based on what we were able to teach some of them so far, only a few are able to do so. Will be interesting to know how close dolphins are to humans in terms of intelligence
Dogs and cats are non verbal animals, (they only make noise to communicate with you or rare occasions between themselves)you can already do with body language
As noted in the video, human languages have a lot of overlap in the core language features, and there's a lot of ideas core to the human experience that a language needs to be able to encode to be useful. In the same way, I would anticipate that there's a fairly common core to the various languages of specific species of animal, and the differences, rather than being an obstacle, may be a useful insight into the experiences of the specific families of a given region.
It would be interesting to see how animals trained to use the talking buttons would work with AI to make words that aren't on the button board that they know and would like to use. In one of the episodes of What about Bunny, Bunny (a bottom using dog) asked where the rest of the words were
The only amazing thing I find watching videos like this, is that humans can’t conceive of other beings sharing the same complex relationships and communication with their loved ones that we do.
As someone working in AI, this is an example of a good use case for AI. Not generating them high-res videos of nonsense just for the sake of it, or learn to "make" music just by learning from how the end result sounds, consuming unimaginable amount of electricty.
@@ZionismFailure Capitalism is the problem. We have an entire genre dedicated to showing us what a dystopian nightmare technology will become under capitalism and that genre is called 'cyberpunk' ...
I have been thinking about this for the past 10 years. Rather than communicating with an alien species far in the universe, we should decode how to talk to species on this planet. Great research, I hope we can build a translator for domestic animals in future
Still can't decide if the funniest part of that to me is that when Americans travel they almost never learn the local language or that English started in ENGland and indigenous language are the native here. But if I started speaking Navajo on the street I'd probably get told to speak English or go back to where I came from
This video shines a positive light on how AI can contribute significantly to our understanding of animal communication, and potentially towards interspecies communication.
It's completely arbitrary... One word, and an unspecified method to "map a language to a shape??" This example is meaningless. Sorry to burst your bubble It's just part of the AI investor bubble
@@growtocycle6992 an unspecified method called Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and Deep learning ? I can only think of one bubble, that is the bubble around you !
Yes yes yes!! A very important factor I think deserves more attention is to account for the difference in critical flicker frequency between us and other animals that might help unlock tools for learning how especially intelligent species such as dolphins or certain birds communicate
I'm optimistic due to two constants. Humans consistently think they're smarter than they are, and humans consistently underestimate animal intelligence. AI interspecies translation could be a fascinating adventure that may bring new perspective to humanity, especially if it occurs suddenly.
But, we _are_ smarter than animals. It'd be best if you could reiterate your point, as it is unclear what you're trying to say. Numerous tests have been done and we've roughly gauged the intelligence of specific species. Not that it matters to everyday life, but just a neat thing. Plus, I don't believe that random birds would be having full on intellectual debates about complex subjects. Not that many humans do that, but still. Humans thinking they're smarter than they are is a human thing.
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
Language is a social and cultural construct - language uniquely develops within its own social context. Is it not an issue that each social group for a given species potentially has its own language? Consequently, there would be no shared language across a whole species, despite having innate behavioural characteristics. Just a thought…
YES! And also, what's to say what would happen how the individual would perceive another species making the sounds but missing a lot of important context?
Yessss, i think that because human languages have a similar shapes like shown in the video, we can also find out the shape of a particular species language and apply it to the whole species so it would be tribe agnostic
We could still map mixed languages. They would basically just be synonyms right? Maybe the translation method might consider the entire language itself Including the structure as a synonym for another language.
The evidence shown here indicates otherwise. I interpreted the language "shape" overlap to indicate some sort of relational similarity between human-language social groups. This indicates some level of unified language, just rotated and repositioned (over time? the theories behind how languages form are still disputed). Reminds me of that one ancient Hebrew story of the tower of Babel. Maybe all human language is really the same unified speech, just diversified because of distance.
Idk why the idea that elephants give each other names is such a revolation. My dog has a bark that he only uses for me. It's one loud, short bark, ideal for someone you intend on calling frequently. He has never used this on anyone other than me.
I’m not a fan of dogs but my bf’s friend has the cutest border collie. She always gives a low short woof each time she sees us to greet and then runs to nuzzle. Ok I am a fan of border collies
Cats have specific callings (meows, chirps) that can be used for specific people in their lives. My cat does a high pitched meow for my mother, and he also has a chirp for my name. They have a language that I can decipher pretty easily if I'm being honest.
I think it would be beneficial for these companies to work with dogs, specifically. Humans and dogs have a very advanced level of communication and we're already able to have a certain level of back and forth feedback with them, through training
Most animals would unfortunately not have the acceptable intellect to use this sort of technology appropriately. Humans that are smart enough can communicate with a large number of different animals in their own ways fairly easily, there's more to communication than just talking.
Reminds me about a book I'm currently reading, "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir (The Martian), only the animal in this case is an alien. The way the language barrier is solved in the book is pretty close to this.
Get two dogs (same breed) expose them to different activities and record their communication with each other continuously. (With and without humans present.)
I imagine there must be quite a few different versions of dog language, just like for humans. A language model that works for one group of dogs wouldn't necessarily work for another group of dogs. Maybe.
The biggest obstacle would be the limitation of animals cognition. Many really only have the complexity of good/bad, safe/dangerous, etc. Though with elephants, dolphins, whales, apes, etc. this could be really interesting.
honestly, I don't expect that communication with even the smartest animals is going to be particularly complex. Chimp studies where they have been "taught" sign language only result in chimps who are able to form vague associations between words. The longest "sentence" that Nim Chimpsky the chimpanzee was able to produce was "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you," which while having an obvious meaning (you give me an orange to eat), has none of the superstrata of language. The words are essentially just jumbled together relating to Nim's desire to eat an orange.
@@terminaldeity They have scientific value in that they will massively open up information on animal communication. People just shouldn't anthropomorphize and expect to have human conversations with animals. I am saying that saying "animal language" in itself is a misnomer when it's really about gaining a more sophisticated understanding of how they communicate in general.
About word shapes in different languages, I highly recommend that they use languages that are completely non-related. It's good that they compared English and Spanish to Japanese, but they shouldn't be comparing indo-european languages to each other. Rather, they should add in a mix of small, isolated and unique languages.
Japanese and Spanish, despite not being directly related, are actually rather similar languages. Maybe not the best choices for "completely different languages".
What they presented here is a super simplified analogy, but it works to get the point across. In reality, these "shapes" are defined by thousands of dimensions. It's not really *a word* that's at a single point, but a concept like they showed in the video "king" and "queen" and "monarch" etc will all be clustered together because they're highly related concepts. These are often called embedding vectors and the space or "shape" as they put it here is often called the model's latent space. This technique of generating these latent spaces based on training data has been used in translation software like Google translate for years now across all sorts of disparate languages; of course, Google translate is far from perfect so there's still a lot of work to be done. 😅
Agreed. Even though Japanese is considered a language isolate, it uses a lot of borrowed words from other languages, including English. Also, many similarities may be arbitrary and coincidental and not actually have any real connection.
That was only part of the graphic. I've actually looked further into the topic before and they have comparisons between a bunch of languages be they indo-european, uralic, east-asian, etc
"there is no way of knowing what is going through the Tigers mind. We don't have the technology" Well now we do. Michael Scott, a man ahead of his time
@@spankyjeffro5320 there's really no benefit from this type of technology. Some doors should just stay closed, most riddles are better left unanswered.
@@sebastianb.1926 A sad, cynical comment to read. There are many benefits, other than simply gaining more knowledge about the species we share the planet with. For one, other species are intrinsically more in tune with the Earth than us; their understanding of its shifts in patterns and ecological monitoring can help us better predict and understand natural occurrences to save human lives from disaster. If every human had the same thinking as you in that most riddles are better unanswered, I wouldn't have the technology to communicate with you right now.
Some animals communicate outside of our range of hearing. Elephants and whales communicate partially in infrasound, and likewise, mice speak partially in ultrasound. How confident are we that infrasound & ultrasound samples are being recorded accurately, parsed properly, and reproduced correctly? I imagine you can't just buy an underwater speaker with high-quality infrasound at best buy, you know?
Cats and dogs are able to understand human language, provided they are trained properly. (A youtube channel called BillySpeaks demonstrates this well.) It is their choice not to follow your order, not their inability.
But notice the way dogs have accents like in English speaking countries the bark sounds like "Woof" and in Eastern European countries it sounds more like "Gaff"
dolphins hunting imo is probably the best candidate for this still. If you can get relative positional data of the hunting party together with dolphin calls, a model can be trained to predict the positions of each of the dolphins
Animal communication is something that AI will be useful for. There was a line I read that said something like “if animals could talk, humans would weep.”
They might raise alarms that you're trying to trick them. A bit like the uncanny valley effect. Imagine if a hippo came up to you and started mimicking the words "come closer, I mean no harm". I'd be freaked out 😅.
Sad reality is that till we learn how to communicate with animals, there would be only few species left to talk to. This planet needs restoration more than communication
Fun fact there are youtube channels out there that taught their dogs or cats how to use text to speak. Their pets would step on a button or buttons to speak/answer their owners.
I never understood why cats are so maligned in our culture when they really are loving companion animals... Honestly I don't trust men that don't like cats.
If your cat holds you in contempt you're not communicating with them, this AI will not help you with that. Cats communicate with body language mostly, you should already know that, not have to be told by an AI.
This is some really interesting research they're doing. What an exciting concept to be able to better understand animals and communicate back with them.
She dedicated 50 years of study to elephant communication: Her findings: "Sometimes they rumble at each other" A life well spent. Just kidding, but I couldn't resist, sorry.
You see past the hype of the masses in the comments. Bravo. It's all hypothetical at the moment. Even the best case (birds, elephants) are only mildly "better than random chance" which individual is talking or being addressed... Not what is being said
Finally. We'll be able to address the elephant in the room.
Well done!
that was on point !
🎯👍🏻
Bravo!
the Thornberries are about to lose their monopoly!
Humans: We can finally talk to seagulls!
Seagulls: mine mine mine mine mine
😂 You’re so my kind of human
Lol
Thr r many variations in that single word to decode different expressions 😂
All fun and games until you leave the house and your dog starts pleading with you in English not to leave. I’d never leave the house out of guilt lol
Just tell it to not worry about it, since you'll come back in a few hours. Easy.
true
You'd be forced to accept that keeping pets indoors is abusive in 90% of cases.
But then I could also give my cat a phone and just call him to ask him where he is and tell him when to be back home.
IDK man I feel like I wouldn't like dogs as much anymore
I am so excited to be alive in the 21st century and be able to see humanity break boundaries of what was thought to be impossible every other day
I hate to break the vibe ... But is easier to see the doom of our society than those thibgs, unfortunately
Some are excited meanwhile some are terrified because animals talking to humans is a sign of day of judgement. May Allah have mercy on us
@@peshawarikabop7977 religion stops human knowledge
animals are actually demonstrably real
@@pierreo33 religion is responsible for all the knowledge humans have
The spider in your bathroom: *I KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO MY FAMILY.*
😂😂😂
John Web
@@Cakadookielol
The pig in the farm: I know what you did to my kids.
Talk about getting caught in a web of lies 🤥 😔
Can't wait for DuoLingo Elephant
Bringing a whole new level of confusion to "I am an apple."
Facts
😂😂😂😂
you will have to.
I hope aliens decipher our language someday 😂
First conversation:
Animal: You said WHAT?!?!?
Second: “If you don’t know what’s wrong I’m certainly not going to tell you”
"I know you ain't talkin' 'bout my momma!"
Animal: "I DIDN'T KNOW ANIMALS COULD SPEAK!!!"
Wait... you can TALK????
Those animals will have so many stories of humans saying something just slightly wrong that makes it a completely different word lol
it's always surprised me that anyone ever doubted animals have feelings and talk
because most of people think they are superior
that's because one can't ask something that can't speak human languages. and so they assume stuff
“Modern “ society says so, has not been the case always
Plants and animals do have feelings cause they living things
@@LearningNew365 I doubt plants feel anything other than sensory stuff
also bacteria is living. buf it feels nothing. but yes. I see where you are coming from
All fun and games until a Chimpanzee shouts “NO!!!!”
great comment
@Vincent-xi8xq that one chimpanzee: *gasp* oh no!.. OH NO!...
i think we should start with birds that understand the human language as well as similar bird species and they could tell us whether or not the ai translation is correct
great reference to Planet of the Apes (the 2014 one iirc?)
Nah we having a real life Ceasar 😂
She's such a dedicated and honorable scientist, It's not easy to give 50 years of hard work and studying animals in Africa. She loves animals and nature so much. There are not many scientists like her these days. Respect
I guess she gets paid for it
Imagine going to all this trouble, and finding out some species just don't have anything interesting to say. Like how most morning bird calls are apparently variations on "MY tree! MY tree!"
There are bird calls and bird chatter. I suspect you're right about there being some standard bird calls, such as MY tree, Danger etc., but if you listen to two or more birds in close proximity you'll hear a completely different quieter complex sequence of chirps which may be communication.
lool
I honestly expect something like "This, this, this, no, this. Threat!! Dog, outside, outside, outside. Aye, hot!" rather than a full intellectual conversation or debate.
Reminds me of the far side cartoon with Professor Schwartzman
“So THOSE are the lyrics?” 😂
dolphins: Thank you for all the fish
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy/Noita reference?
More like we will be able to hear every fish screaming in the ocean and bird in the sky with a chip in our brains... Possibilities could be endless
@ranjitsharma5811 I've been trying to beat noita religiously for months now and I'm extremely shocked to see this comment here. It's pretty niche. Having said that it's probably a hitchhikers reference
@@ranjitsharma5811thought so too haha 🤣
Dolphins actually think similarly to us. They'd probably be interesting conversation partners.
Soo... how many years until we have collars like Dug's in "Up"?
Mark my words, less than 10.
@@HunterLawson_GameDevbut more than 5. We might have a version of the model in 5 but not a great one and not one you can slap on a collar and have it translate things. And not one that utilizes thought....
Maybe 15 to integrate the language model to the neural link projects
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@@HunterLawson_GameDev noted
won't happen, dog barks don't represent any specific word sadly
The pig at the farm, "brother may i have some oats"
Paraphrasing
“No brother, the tall skinny ones threw the oats to me.”
💀💀idk why this is so funny
you you oats oats me me yes yes
I apologise for, I do not remember the rest of the dialogue between the two pigs at the farm, and therefore am breaking the chain.
But, I would like to show true appreciation, for you three maestros and the ones to come that have the dialogue memorised by heart.
To conclude, "Brother, may I have some oats brother?" -"No brother, the tall skinny ones threw the oats to me".
Long live the pig that has busted the secret of the tall skinny ones and their cruel doings.
The pig: can I see the sky
Related but on another animal topic: Chickens will name and then use the name for each of their human caregivers individually, as well as different role call sounds for each chicken in their own flock. My spouse and I have our own names that were passed down from our former senior hen, who was our first chicken. We have 2 roosters who live indoors and came from another home, and they call us by the name they chose for us, which is different from the name our outdoor flocks call us. I'd love to be able to translate some of their other calls too, using a tech like this
do you eat Chicken in front of them
@@shothastarSome chickens are cannibals so they might not even care
Some people have chickens just for their eggs. @shothastar
@@shothastar thats cruel. Of course not. I share my chicken with them, like my mom taught me, and they are more than happy to share their relatives as a meal with me ♡
@@silent_advocate this is primarily what we keep them for, and use an age out system with a tiny chicken retirement home for them to live their lives until they are about to pass from age related issues. We use an avian vet to make sure they're not ill close to their passing date if we do eat them but I prefer Chicken of the Woods (a fungus) since most restaurants use this anyway and it's easy to harvest. We have brown and blue eggs which we can barter for more than brown, so those are for eating and using shells in place of road salt, grind it to use as calcium replacer etc and then our elderly birds are monitored until its time. Most actually get buried under their favorite tree. My favorites become their own new trees, like my Fluffernutter is a maple ♡
Never been closer to having a real-life Babel-fish, science is endlessly fascinating.
forget science, what you want is weed, and actually lsitening.
@@atomictraveller Our ears are not able to distinguish subtle variations in frequency (or even anywhere near the full range of most other species) nor some of the subtle variations in timing ...
this is such a great next step for AI, instead of obsessing over AGI. How good would it be to comunicate with animals, on the other hand, what would we say to the cows, chickens, or pigs haha
the part where languages had the same shape!!
Well, it's in the name, so I shouldn't have to explain to you that we literally HAVE been closer than now. 😂
It would be wild to not only decode what animals are saying but also translate English into it
What if your dog started correcting your grammar? “For WHOM, not who” 😂
That would assume that animals would understand grammar. And based on what we were able to teach some of them so far, only a few are able to do so. Will be interesting to know how close dolphins are to humans in terms of intelligence
@@andresvelez1927 Humans have enough trouble with grammar
Bet you are fun at parties
@@andresvelez1927whales have more complex communications than humans, i would start there
props to the motion designer/team on this one, i love the pixelated edges effects on everything. super cool
We wish all the best for these research
Eagerly waiting for the Dr. Dolittle app to say "I love you" to my little dog and have him understand
Dogs and cats are non verbal animals, (they only make noise to communicate with you or rare occasions between themselves)you can already do with body language
@@graceross4888 I wouldn't say on *rare* occasions between themselves, but they definitely use body language for communication more than sound
@@graceross4888 wow ur so smart
Your dog knows you love him. And you know he loves you. No need for some gadget 😊
I already do this with sound sign and body language to dogs
Phineas and Ferb's Invention idea is starting to come true
Thinking more of universal translator from Star Trek
Ferb, I know what we're going to do today......
@@Henbotsome of us didn’t grow up as nerds
This is exactly what I thought of when I saw this video!
hi y7k
We could possibly be able to speak to elephants before GTA VI
And discover and travel the whole universe before half-life 3
It was fun at first. But now I am sick of reading this copypasta
@@BlackEagle352I'm not sick until rockstar responds.
And before half-life 3
I was just looking for that comment 😂😂 I would have posted myself otherwise
Haven’t seen anyone mention this: the intro is beautiful!
I was looking for this comment ❤
The visuals of this video are top notch
but what if the different elephants speak different accents of "elephant language"? like cows who have different accents in different regions
In that case an unsupervised language model would probably be able to detect the similarities and differences between dialects I’d guess
As noted in the video, human languages have a lot of overlap in the core language features, and there's a lot of ideas core to the human experience that a language needs to be able to encode to be useful. In the same way, I would anticipate that there's a fairly common core to the various languages of specific species of animal, and the differences, rather than being an obstacle, may be a useful insight into the experiences of the specific families of a given region.
And let’s not forget Urban Dictionary
That was the point of the overlapping "dog" models of human language.
Wait, cows from different regions have different "dialects"!? Where did you come by this amazing insight, I must know?!
What a time to be alive!
Papers!!
Wish it was 300 years from now when we'll be able to talk to dogs. I'd be like "we're gonna cuddle up all dang day"
Its not a good time. its a good time for technology, but not for society.
@@AdyRianthan it is an interesting time to be alive.
it’s not out yet
It would be interesting to see how animals trained to use the talking buttons would work with AI to make words that aren't on the button board that they know and would like to use. In one of the episodes of What about Bunny, Bunny (a bottom using dog) asked where the rest of the words were
thats a good idea. you got me thinking.
The only amazing thing I find watching videos like this, is that humans can’t conceive of other beings sharing the same complex relationships and communication with their loved ones that we do.
ikr
As someone working in AI, this is an example of a good use case for AI. Not generating them high-res videos of nonsense just for the sake of it, or learn to "make" music just by learning from how the end result sounds, consuming unimaginable amount of electricty.
AI will bring more problems and few great things.
Just because you don't like or understand it doesn't make it not-useful or bad. You have a lot to learn.
@@spankyjeffro5320 are you too scared to reply to my comment or you are directing it to someone else?
Correct, this is the proper application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (which is one of the most often misused terms heh)
@@ZionismFailure Capitalism is the problem. We have an entire genre dedicated to showing us what a dystopian nightmare technology will become under capitalism and that genre is called 'cyberpunk' ...
I have been thinking about this for the past 10 years. Rather than communicating with an alien species far in the universe, we should decode how to talk to species on this planet. Great research, I hope we can build a translator for domestic animals in future
Imagine Americans yelling at animals "THIS IS AMERICA! SPEAK ENGLISH." That probably won't end too well for the person
and ther animal replies "Me no habla engles"
Still can't decide if the funniest part of that to me is that when Americans travel they almost never learn the local language or that English started in ENGland and indigenous language are the native here. But if I started speaking Navajo on the street I'd probably get told to speak English or go back to where I came from
I think you mean wouldn't end well for the animal in a country where there's more guns than people and laws protecting "defending" yourself.
hand gone
maybe head gone too
@@tHebUm18 You would rather I'm not allowed to defend myself?
This video shines a positive light on how AI can contribute significantly to our understanding of animal communication, and potentially towards interspecies communication.
THIS! Get rid of image generation and music generation, use ai for this.
6:03 Wow. This gave me goosebumps!
It's completely arbitrary... One word, and an unspecified method to "map a language to a shape??"
This example is meaningless. Sorry to burst your bubble
It's just part of the AI investor bubble
@@growtocycle6992 an unspecified method called Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and Deep learning ? I can only think of one bubble, that is the bubble around you !
This is absolutely brilliant! One of the most brilliant videos and discoveries I've ever seen.
Yes yes yes!! A very important factor I think deserves more attention is to account for the difference in critical flicker frequency between us and other animals that might help unlock tools for learning how especially intelligent species such as dolphins or certain birds communicate
I'm optimistic due to two constants. Humans consistently think they're smarter than they are, and humans consistently underestimate animal intelligence. AI interspecies translation could be a fascinating adventure that may bring new perspective to humanity, especially if it occurs suddenly.
Excited too, I think we will see the opposite, people over estimate animal intelligence.
But, we _are_ smarter than animals.
It'd be best if you could reiterate your point, as it is unclear what you're trying to say.
Numerous tests have been done and we've roughly gauged the intelligence of specific species. Not that it matters to everyday life, but just a neat thing. Plus, I don't believe that random birds would be having full on intellectual debates about complex subjects. Not that many humans do that, but still.
Humans thinking they're smarter than they are is a human thing.
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
You don't see animals building complicated instruments to make their life easy, you just see a crow poking a stick into a hole to get stucked food out and call it intelligence, try your best, cry hard, humans are always and always and always better than anyone in this entire UNIVERSE AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE US NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN US NO ONE IS BETTER THAN US, GOD GAVE US THIS PLANET SO THAT WE CAN RULE OVER IT LIKE KINGS AND QUEENS, WE DON'T HAVE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX INSTEAD YOU HAVE INFERIORITY COMPLEX , CRY HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! QUAK QUAK SQUIK SQUIK ROAR ROAR BARK BARK MOO MOO
Imagine discovering that the neighborhood dog is an *insult comic* (dumping on you day & night).
:o
Well that sounds like a Triumph!
🐶🎤
Amazing work and editing like always !
Those closing lines were beautiful 🥹 be kind to animals people. This is our world as much as it is theirs ❤
Ask the animal in the slaughterhouses how they feel.
Cow: "I like my fellow kin and all... but man this place is crowded."
no as a tf2 scout main i would just taunt the cows
we do everyday in these comment sections
"well how would you feel?"
The slaughterhouse is only a days experience, I want to know if they find life on factory farms worthwhile
Language is a social and cultural construct - language uniquely develops within its own social context. Is it not an issue that each social group for a given species potentially has its own language? Consequently, there would be no shared language across a whole species, despite having innate behavioural characteristics. Just a thought…
YES! And also, what's to say what would happen how the individual would perceive another species making the sounds but missing a lot of important context?
Yessss, i think that because human languages have a similar shapes like shown in the video, we can also find out the shape of a particular species language and apply it to the whole species so it would be tribe agnostic
We could still map mixed languages. They would basically just be synonyms right?
Maybe the translation method might consider the entire language itself Including the structure as a synonym for another language.
@@binder.uWe can't even do that with human languages without extensive cultural exchange and documentation.
The evidence shown here indicates otherwise. I interpreted the language "shape" overlap to indicate some sort of relational similarity between human-language social groups. This indicates some level of unified language, just rotated and repositioned (over time? the theories behind how languages form are still disputed). Reminds me of that one ancient Hebrew story of the tower of Babel. Maybe all human language is really the same unified speech, just diversified because of distance.
I don't want to be there when your AI accidentally insults a lion's mother when you tried to ask if it thought it would rain today.
I often hear birds in my condo complex saying "Cheeburger, cheeburger, cheeburger chee?" and "Biggergirl, biggergirl".
Idk why the idea that elephants give each other names is such a revolation. My dog has a bark that he only uses for me. It's one loud, short bark, ideal for someone you intend on calling frequently. He has never used this on anyone other than me.
I’m not a fan of dogs but my bf’s friend has the cutest border collie. She always gives a low short woof each time she sees us to greet and then runs to nuzzle. Ok I am a fan of border collies
Cats have specific callings (meows, chirps) that can be used for specific people in their lives. My cat does a high pitched meow for my mother, and he also has a chirp for my name. They have a language that I can decipher pretty easily if I'm being honest.
Pidgeons are also able to recognize people by their face.
it's obvious to anyone that has / pays attention to their pets that animals have at least some capacity to communicate
I think it would be beneficial for these companies to work with dogs, specifically. Humans and dogs have a very advanced level of communication and we're already able to have a certain level of back and forth feedback with them, through training
Most animals would unfortunately not have the acceptable intellect to use this sort of technology appropriately. Humans that are smart enough can communicate with a large number of different animals in their own ways fairly easily, there's more to communication than just talking.
Reminds me about a book I'm currently reading, "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir (The Martian), only the animal in this case is an alien. The way the language barrier is solved in the book is pretty close to this.
Out of curiosity, did you like 'Arrival' by Denis Villeneuve?
This book is so good!!
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Jumping on this, if you like Arrival read the short story it came from, Story of your Life by Ted Chiang
In the movie Arrival this is how they communicated and deciphered the alien language
mary is the solution to the communication barrier. inhail mary indeed
try that, put the book down. mary doesn't need subscribers.
does that mean i can finally tell the squirrel in my backyard to pay rent ?
Dont show this to the politicians and gov. 🤣
No.
Bro you should be asking it to pay rent...
landlording animals is peak cyberpunk dystopia
FINALLY I BEEN WANTING THIS FOR YEARS!!!
Its is this kind of science that gives me hope in the human race. ❤
I want every major tech youtuber to cover this
Get two dogs (same breed) expose them to different activities and record their communication with each other continuously. (With and without humans present.)
I imagine there must be quite a few different versions of dog language, just like for humans. A language model that works for one group of dogs wouldn't necessarily work for another group of dogs. Maybe.
Beyond the anticipated knowledge sharing, I can already imagine powerful nations mobilizing interspecied armies
Sharks with lasers 😂
The biggest obstacle would be the limitation of animals cognition. Many really only have the complexity of good/bad, safe/dangerous, etc. Though with elephants, dolphins, whales, apes, etc. this could be really interesting.
This is break through. So much human beings need to know and learn. It's like a drop in the ocean.
Now this sounds like a fantastic use of A.I, if it can be reliable.
Teaching AI to communicate with thousands of species that have absolutely no reasons to hate humanity..... This will end well :D
luckily most of them are unable to handle guns so
@@sayorancode Most... not all 😂
honestly, I don't expect that communication with even the smartest animals is going to be particularly complex. Chimp studies where they have been "taught" sign language only result in chimps who are able to form vague associations between words. The longest "sentence" that Nim Chimpsky the chimpanzee was able to produce was "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you," which while having an obvious meaning (you give me an orange to eat), has none of the superstrata of language. The words are essentially just jumbled together relating to Nim's desire to eat an orange.
Precisely. I don't see these kinds of projects having much scientific value. Animal language studies are all dead ends.
@@terminaldeity They have scientific value in that they will massively open up information on animal communication. People just shouldn't anthropomorphize and expect to have human conversations with animals. I am saying that saying "animal language" in itself is a misnomer when it's really about gaining a more sophisticated understanding of how they communicate in general.
Cetaceans robably have a much more complex language
Earth shatteringly important work imo. Thank you so much to the people doing it! ❤️
What a lovely project . It just made my day .
About word shapes in different languages, I highly recommend that they use languages that are completely non-related. It's good that they compared English and Spanish to Japanese, but they shouldn't be comparing indo-european languages to each other. Rather, they should add in a mix of small, isolated and unique languages.
Japanese and Spanish, despite not being directly related, are actually rather similar languages. Maybe not the best choices for "completely different languages".
What they presented here is a super simplified analogy, but it works to get the point across.
In reality, these "shapes" are defined by thousands of dimensions. It's not really *a word* that's at a single point, but a concept like they showed in the video "king" and "queen" and "monarch" etc will all be clustered together because they're highly related concepts. These are often called embedding vectors and the space or "shape" as they put it here is often called the model's latent space.
This technique of generating these latent spaces based on training data has been used in translation software like Google translate for years now across all sorts of disparate languages; of course, Google translate is far from perfect so there's still a lot of work to be done. 😅
Agreed. Even though Japanese is considered a language isolate, it uses a lot of borrowed words from other languages, including English. Also, many similarities may be arbitrary and coincidental and not actually have any real connection.
@@fireaza Similar tonally, which is different from the concept map that they were showing there.
That was only part of the graphic. I've actually looked further into the topic before and they have comparisons between a bunch of languages be they indo-european, uralic, east-asian, etc
Come with me I’m not going to eat you😂
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 ayo!!!
“Yet” 😬
"there is no way of knowing what is going through the Tigers mind. We don't have the technology"
Well now we do.
Michael Scott, a man ahead of his time
this is genuinely very cool. I'm looking forward to this ultimately proving Noam Chomsky right about universal grammar in humans.
So this is how we get to the Star Trek Universal Translator....OMG. I'm so pumped!
Poachers will be like: "come out here, there's so much food!" Good luck teaching animals about lying.
Teaching them about the concept of lying will probably make them hate us, they'd rightfully see no point to it and steer clear of us.
@@spankyjeffro5320 there's really no benefit from this type of technology. Some doors should just stay closed, most riddles are better left unanswered.
@@sebastianb.1926 A sad, cynical comment to read. There are many benefits, other than simply gaining more knowledge about the species we share the planet with. For one, other species are intrinsically more in tune with the Earth than us; their understanding of its shifts in patterns and ecological monitoring can help us better predict and understand natural occurrences to save human lives from disaster. If every human had the same thinking as you in that most riddles are better unanswered, I wouldn't have the technology to communicate with you right now.
@@sijo938 thank heavens
You can be sure many animals know about lying
Some animals communicate outside of our range of hearing. Elephants and whales communicate partially in infrasound, and likewise, mice speak partially in ultrasound. How confident are we that infrasound & ultrasound samples are being recorded accurately, parsed properly, and reproduced correctly? I imagine you can't just buy an underwater speaker with high-quality infrasound at best buy, you know?
I think the scientists and researchers who have dedicated their entire lives understand this and aren't shopping at Best Buy for their equipment.
@@sijo938 Sure but I think you overestimate how well they are funded
Will humans exploit animals further for economic gain once communication with them is possible.
No
@14_Femboy_88 what?
We still use child slaves to make chocolate, so probably.
There was a scene in the movie The Wild Robot that made me feel like the idea of learning to communicate with animals could actually become a reality.
Big reason to be excited for the future, are moments like these.
Be great to be able to tell cats to stop being a bunch of angry jerks
i support this
u didnt give 'em cheezburger that's why
Cats and dogs are able to understand human language, provided they are trained properly. (A youtube channel called BillySpeaks demonstrates this well.) It is their choice not to follow your order, not their inability.
they'd ignore you anyway
STOP BEING RATCHET
We usually learn the curse words of a new language first. I can't wait to road rage in Elephant!
as a wise man once said: "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
*wise ape
This is groundbreaking research! Vow! Kudos to the pioneers!
this video was an actual glimpse of a future that hopefully we’re all able to experience in our lifetimes
I hope it’ll be like that translator in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with Steve.
Fascinating topic.
But notice the way dogs have accents like in English speaking countries the bark sounds like "Woof" and in Eastern European countries it sounds more like "Gaff"
This is so fascinating, thanks for sharing!
As a child I used to always yearn for a way to be able to communicate with or talk to animals. To know what they are saying. Very fascinating.
dolphins hunting imo is probably the best candidate for this still. If you can get relative positional data of the hunting party together with dolphin calls, a model can be trained to predict the positions of each of the dolphins
Dolphins game plan translated before GTA 6
Bro imagine telling a dolphin what consent is, they have a big problem with SA.
My cat understood this video better than me
the only way to validate the generated animal audio, is to have a seperate ai translate that generated audio back to english and then validate that.
This is truly amazing what a time to be alive!!!
Animal communication is something that AI will be useful for. There was a line I read that said something like “if animals could talk, humans would weep.”
bojack horseman is now cyberpunk genre
Imagine explaining to an animal that your not going to eat them
They might raise alarms that you're trying to trick them. A bit like the uncanny valley effect. Imagine if a hippo came up to you and started mimicking the words "come closer, I mean no harm". I'd be freaked out 😅.
@@NedInYaHead yeah if an animal did that I would be terrified
..and then eating them anyway!
My dogs couldn't even understand each other. Maybe one talks in english, the other in japanese in dog language lol
This is awesome! How wonderful for humans to communicate with them. We'd learn so much.
Beautiful video! Thank you so much! I can't wait
Best of all, the animals don't demand privacy or they will send any bills because human use their "data" for training.
You explained machine learning super well here, congrats
4:20 "we are humans we are not bats"
not batman
8:50 what she said changes what I see about animals forever and I so agree
Sad reality is that till we learn how to communicate with animals, there would be only few species left to talk to. This planet needs restoration more than communication
Fun fact there are youtube channels out there that taught their dogs or cats how to use text to speak. Their pets would step on a button or buttons to speak/answer their owners.
Ah, hearing your cat express his contempt towards you.
never gonna happen
I never understood why cats are so maligned in our culture when they really are loving companion animals... Honestly I don't trust men that don't like cats.
If your cat holds you in contempt you're not communicating with them, this AI will not help you with that.
Cats communicate with body language mostly, you should already know that, not have to be told by an AI.
I just speak high Valyrian to animals works every time. "Dohaerys!" "Lykiri!" 🗣️
No.
This is some really interesting research they're doing. What an exciting concept to be able to better understand animals and communicate back with them.
This is the stuff I want AI to be used for, things like helping people hear again, see again, or walk again. Not producing SLOP!
She dedicated 50 years of study to elephant communication: Her findings: "Sometimes they rumble at each other" A life well spent. Just kidding, but I couldn't resist, sorry.
I mean, you aren't wrong. Animal language studies tend to be scientific dead ends.
You see past the hype of the masses in the comments.
Bravo.
It's all hypothetical at the moment. Even the best case (birds, elephants) are only mildly "better than random chance" which individual is talking or being addressed... Not what is being said
"Man who spent 30 years studying anteaters laments his wasted life."
I think an aspect is people like her aren't taken seriously as well.