AI could soon allow humans to talk to animals.
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Experts from across the globe are using 'digital bioacoustics' to capture the sounds and behaviours of animals that are too quiet and nuanced for people to pick up on.
These will be used to train artificial intelligence to decipher the communications into something that humans can understand and organisations such as the Earth Species Project are expecting a breakthrough in the next 12 to 36 months.
Aza Raskin, one of the project's co-founders, said: "Can we do generative, novel animal vocalisations? We think that, in the next 12 to 36 months, we will likely be able to do this for animal communication.
"You could imagine if we could build a synthetic whale or crow that speaks whale or crow in a way that they can't tell they are not speaking to one of their own.
"The plot twist is that we may be able to engage in conversation before we understand what we are saying."