Comment on New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets
hansolo@lemmy.today 5 days ago
AI isn’t needed, dogs and cats can be trained to use sound buttons to express complex thoughts and emotions. IIRC, they can have a vocabulary of something like 100-200 words used commonly in the household.
Your pets already understand you and a lot of what you say. You may just not understand them, and AI isn’t going to fix that.
howlingecko@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Or do the dogs/cats train the humans with those buttons? ;)
hansolo@lemmy.today 5 days ago
The pets do need the training to understand that the sounds, when the button says them, mean communication to the human. It’s actually a pretty sophisticated intellectual jump, and not all pets necessarily get it.
Typically one starts with “outside” as a non-food common request (for indoor peta). So an owner starts by saying “outside” and associating just that word with going outside (not the full “you wanna go out?”). Once the pet gets past the conceptual hurdle is the button means the thing, after that it’s much easier to add new words.