AI system trained to respond like a dog

A team of researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI has trained an AI system to respond like a dog using data from an actual animal. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, the group describes their system and what it can and cannot do. The team is also going to present their work at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition this summer. AI systems are typically based on deep-learning algorithms that process data describing events, and then using what they have learned to predict future behavior. In this new effort, the researchers have applied such a strategy to dog behavior.