Have you ever imagined being able to communicate with your pet at home and let them understand everything you say? It sounds too good to be true, but scientists have started using artificial intelligence(Al) to help communicate with animals.
AI allows humans to use technology to watch and understand the sounds and signals(信号) animals use so we can try to speak back to them.
Professor Karen Bakker said that AI is already helping humans communicate with bats (蝙蝠) and bees. This could change what we know about nature and our non-human relationships.
Bakker said AI helped decode(解码) recordings of animals talking to one another. She said trying to communicate in their language could be better than to teach them to use human sign language.
Bakker explained how scientist Yossi Yoyel had used recordings and Al to understand bats. "Bats argue over food; they communicate differently between genders(性别) they have their names, or 'signature calls', "
She said. "But unlike human mothers raise their voices when talking to babies, mother bats lower the voice. "A computer can be trained to listen like a bat, but this can never be done with the human ear.
With bees, the computer both listens and watches the bees' body movement to understand what they are communicating. "When bees 'speak' to one another, they use body movements, as well as the sounds, to communicate, " Bakker said. She said scientists now know how bees say things such as "hush（be quiet） or"stop".
Scientist Tim Landgrafeven created a robot bee that entered a hive(蜂巢) and it was able to communicate to other bees when it wanted them to stop doing something or fly.
So, are you looking forward to communicating with animals one day?
