Animals could easily be talking to us if we tried
6 months ago
- #AI
- #Neuroscience
- #Animal Communication
- Real-time brain imaging technology is currently effective and can be surgical or non-invasive (functional ultrasound).
- Voice AI systems can process arbitrary data and produce reasonably accurate speech output.
- Combining brain imaging, cameras, microphones, speakers, and microchips on a dog could enable AI to predict and vocalize the dog's thoughts.
- The synthesized speech could be streamed back to the dog's speaker, effectively allowing the dog to 'talk.'
- The author expresses surprise that this project isn't being pursued, considering it more immediately solvable than Mars missions, AI alignment, or quantum computing.
- While those projects are transformative, enabling animal communication is seen as an equally ambitious but feasible near-term goal.