Scientists Are Using AI to Talk To Animals and Plants

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Dog whisperers may be out of a job soon.
Scientific American has reported scientists are using “advanced sensors and artificial intelligence technology to observe and decode how a broad range of species, including plants, already share information with their own communication methods.”
The magazine’s report was backed by data from Karen Bakker, the author of How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants.
In Bakker’s book she writes about the future of digital bioacoustics which is the field of communicating with animals and plants by using technology such as AI.
Bakker believes interspecies communication is right around the corner if we “combine digital listening—which is opening up vast new worlds of nonhuman sound and decoding that sound with artificial intelligence—with deep listening.”
Using AI to talk to computers is mind-bending enough, but using AI to talk to animals seems almost more revolutionary.
Could be big deal for everything from agriculture to religion.https://t.co/rwz0WdhV1r
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) February 17, 2023
Scientific American broke down the science behind interspecies communication: