It was recently revealed that an AI research team in Singapore is using artificial intelligence to read minds, using trained algorithms to map out brain responses and letting them produce images based on readings of brain activity. Now neurobiologists are discussing taking this concept even further and using a ChatGPT-like AI program to talk to animals.
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00:00 It was recently revealed that an AI research team in Singapore is using artificial intelligence
00:08 to read minds, using trained algorithms to map out brain responses and having them produce
00:13 images based on readings of brain activity.
00:15 Now neurobiologists are discussing taking this concept even further and using a chat
00:20 GPT-like AI program to talk to animals.
00:23 In a recent Current Biology essay, they outlined what they call the Dr. Dolittle Challenge,
00:28 or three things an AI would have to do in order to communicate with another species.
00:31 First, it would have to be able to use the language of whatever species you're trying
00:35 to talk to, meaning it would need to have a large language model that is able to decipher
00:38 not only what they are communicating with their vocalizations, but also be able to convert
00:42 those back into audio cues of its own manufacturer.
00:45 The AI would also need to be able to elicit a response from the animals, quote, "as if
00:49 it were communicating with a con-specific or an animal similar to itself and not a machine."
00:54 But perhaps the most difficult item is that the AI would also need to be able to produce
00:58 sounds that account for myriad communications.
01:01 The neurobiologists say that while it might be easy to produce sounds that relate to alarm
01:04 or mating rituals, other social behaviors are not well understood.
01:08 For instance, we don't exactly know when creatures are eliciting information from one another,
01:12 like asking how they're doing.
01:13 In fact, they might not even use language to do so, and they could be using other olfactory
01:18 or body language methods instead.
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