What We Can Learn about Machine Learning from Animal Communication

Any child who read a Doctor Dolittle book has likely dreamed of being able to communicate with animals in the same way the title character can. In the century-plus since those books came out, it doesn't seem that anyone has developed that ability innately. However, researchers think they can take steps in that direction thanks to machine learning. There are many elements of animal communication that perfectly lend themselves to the work that can be done by machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI). And that work, in turn, illustrates how machine learning can be used to crack other seemingly impossible codes. Here are three takeaways from the work being done that can be universally applied.