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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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00:00It 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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