00:00It was recently revealed that an AI research team in Singapore is using artificial intelligence to
00:08read minds, using trained algorithms to map out brain responses and having them produce
00:13images based on readings of brain activity. Now neurobiologists are discussing taking this
00:18concept even further and using a chat GPT-like AI program to talk to animals. In a recent current
00:24biology essay, they outlined what they call the Dr. Doolittle Challenge, or three things an AI
00:29would have to do in order to communicate with another species. First, it would have to be able
00:33to use the language of whatever species you're trying to talk to, meaning it would need to have
00:36a large language model that is able to decipher not only what they are communicating with their
00:40vocalizations, but also be able to convert those back into audio cues of its own manufacture. The
00:46AI would also need to be able to elicit a response from the animals, quote, as if it were communicating
00:50with a conspecific or an animal similar to itself and not a machine. But perhaps the most difficult
00:56item is that the AI would also need to be able to produce sounds that account for myriad
01:00communications. The neurobiologists say that while it might be easy to produce sounds that
01:04relate to alarm or mating rituals, other social behaviors are not well understood. For instance,
01:09we don't exactly know when creatures are eliciting information from one another, like asking how
01:13they're doing. In fact, they might not even use language to do so, and they could be using other
01:17olfactory or body language methods instead.
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