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Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks
Dogs can bark, growl, and whimper in many situations: when somebody
approaches or enters their territory, to greet, to receive attention, to
threaten and to defend themselves, when playing, when they are alone or in
pain, in conflict, frustration or excitement, and in answer to the barks of
other dogs. These sounds do not have a meaning like the words of the human
language, but they seem to represent a type of communication that reports the
emotional state of the dog who is barking. Dog owners and trainers often know
what their dogs are trying to communicate when they bark or whimper. Now, some
scientists are trying to learn what dogs are trying to communicate better when
they bark by using AI that has been used to analyze human speech. They
collected the barks, growls, and whimpers of 74 dogs of various types in a
variety of contexts and fed them into an algorithm that identified language
patterns. AI will then identify common patterns dogs use and interpret them
into human languages.
A famous Austrian philosopher said that if a lion spoke, we could never
understand him. But since dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years and
have been closely connected to human lives, we might understand what they want
to communicate with the aid of AI.
Read the article and learn about how some scientists are trying to decode
canines' sounds.
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