https://www.foxnews.com/tech/real-life-dr-dolittle-scientists-verge-cracking-code-talking-animals
Talking with dogs, decoding whale sounds and interpreting bird calls could all be possible in the coming years as artificial intelligence applications learn to translate different creatures' communications, animal researchers said.
Scientists have started using AI tools to analyze vast quantities of data on various species' communications, ranging from sounds, postures, expressions and more, to determine if they can understand and talk to animals in human terms.
“The door has been opened to using machine learning to decode languages that we don't already know how to decode,” said Aza Raskin, who co-founded the Earth Species Project, a nonprofit aiming to develop AI models that let humans have “conversations” with animals. He predicts this will be possible within the next two years.
“The plot twist is that we will be able to communicate [with animals] before we understand” them, Raskin told Scientific American. “It wouldn't surprise me if we discovered [expressions for] ‘grief’ or ‘mother’ or ‘hungry’ across species.”