AI expected to help researchers unlock two-way communication, say team that includes Tel Aviv University
In the Dr Dolittle books and films, the ability to “talk to the animals” captured the imagination. Now scientists are being offered a $10m prize to create real conversations.
“In recent years, the scientific community’s understanding of the communication patterns of non-human organisms has advanced in leaps and bounds,” said Prof Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University, who is chair of the Coller Dolittle Prize and co-authored the bat study.
The team behind the prize, which closes for submissions on 31 July, said the goal is to develop a system whereby animals do not realise they are actually communicating with humans – similar to thefor AI, in which the goal is to create a computer system whose conversation with a human is indistinguishable from that of a real person.
Peter Gabriel, the musician and co-founder of Interspecies Internet, who helped to develop the concept of the prize, said: “When I played music with bonobo apes, I was stunned by their intelligence and their musicality … I’m delighted that there are serious scientists now engaged both with understanding their communication and ways through which we might begin meaningful interspecies communication.
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