It sounds like the plot of a new Disney movie, but experts predict AI will allow people to communicate with household pets and even wild animals. Researchers around the world are using'digital bioacoustics' - tiny, portable, digital recorders - to capture the sounds, tics and behaviors of animals that are too quiet or nuanced for humans to pick up on. These databases will be used train artificial intelligence to decipher these miniature communications and translate them into something more comprehendible to us, almost like a'ChatGPT for animals'. Projects such as the Earth Species Project expect a breakthrough in the next 12 to 36 months. Founded in 2017, the AI non-profit aims to record, understand and'talk back' to animals - from cats and dogs to more unusual species such as whales and crows.

PsychoGenics CEO Emer Leahy of Paramus, New Jersey, explains how the first potential AI-discovered treatment for schizophrenia was developed through machine learning. Fox News Digital spoke with her. Imagine a world where "interspecies communication" isn't the stuff of sci-fi fantasies - instead, a reality where humans can chit-chat with their furry, feathery, and scaly friends. This is where AI swoops in like a superhero, with researchers using algorithms to decipher animal vocalizations, movements, and even facial expressions. The Earth Species Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication, is at the forefront of this groundbreaking research.

On the surface, it may not appear that Dr Dolittle and artificial intelligence (AI) have much in common. One belongs in 1900s children's literature, while the other is firmly rooted in the 21st century. One is a physician turned vet who can talk to animals, and the other a computerized technology that cannot. AI has already given us the ability to bark instructions at robots like Siri and Alexa – could its potential be extended to the animal kingdom? Could it help us decipher some of the mysteries of the natural world and maybe one day allow us to "talk" to animals? There are certainly some who think so.

During the early years of the Cold War, an array of underwater microphones monitoring for sounds of Russian submarines captured something otherworldly in the depths of the North Atlantic. The haunting sounds came not from enemy craft, nor aliens, but humpback whales, a species that, at the time, humans had hunted almost to the brink of extinction. Years later, when environmentalist Roger Payne obtained the recordings from U.S. Navy storage and listened to them, he was deeply moved. The whale songs seemed to reveal majestic creatures that could communicate with one another in complex ways. If only the world could hear these sounds, Payne reasoned, the humpback whale might just be saved from extinction. When Payne released the recordings in 1970 as the album Songs of the Humpback Whale, he was proved right. It was played at the U.N. general assembly, and it inspired Congress to pass the 1973 endangered species act. By 1986, commercial whaling was banned under international law.

New developments in artificial intelligence and technology could help humans communicate with their pets and any other animal species that calls Earth home. Outside of the field of science, the idea of two-way human-animal communication has existed in pop culture since at least as far back as 1967, when the original "Doctor Dolittle" movie came out. But the idea is no longer just a far-fetched movie plot; it's nearing reality. Scientists have uncovered successful methods of understanding animal language, including the complexities of their various sounds and actions together. The research into talking to animals goes back years, but in 2017, scientists figured out one crucial factor in their AI-based endeavor: Languages, both human and animal, can be visualized as shapes, and these shapes are way easier for AI technologies to decipher and decode. "You ask the AI to build a shape that represents a language," said Aza Raskin, co-founder and president of Earth Species Project.

New developments in artificial intelligence and technology could help humans communicate with their pets and any other animal species that calls Earth home. Outside of the field of science, the idea of two-way human-animal communication has existed in pop culture since at least as far back as 1967, when the original "Doctor Dolittle" movie came out. But the idea is no longer just a far-fetched movie plot; it's nearing reality.Scientists have uncovered successful methods of understanding animal language, including the complexities of their various sounds and actions together. The research into talking to animals goes back years, but in 2017, scientists figured out one crucial factor in their AI based endeavor: Languages, both human and animal, can be visualized as shapes, and these shapes are way easier for AI technologies to decipher and decode."You ask the AI to build a shape that represents a language," said Aza Raskin, co-founder and president of Earth Species Project. "You could take English, you could take Japanese, and you could rotate one shape on top of the other, and the word that is dog ends up in the same spot in both. In the animal domain, when we want to translate animal communication that you can then translate, say, from behavior to what the animals are saying, from what the animals are saying to another dialect of another animal."SEE MORE: Cats Know Your Voice And Can Tell When You're Talking To ThemRaskin and the California based non-profit Earth Species Project is on a mission to decode animal communication based on the advances in AI combined with the growing understanding of how, why, and when animals make certain sounds and actions. Raskin told Newsy about a recent breakthrough development in AI technology that's brought humans closer than ever to talking to furry friends."You can put in three seconds of anyone's voice my voice, your voice and the computer will continue to speak in your voice after those three seconds are up, so it'll continue saying what you were saying," Raskin said. "It'll say it with your diction, with your prosody, with your identity, and it'll maintain semantic coherence for five, six, seven, eight seconds. One of the realizations then is that that means that the next 12, 36, 48 months, we will be able to do this with animal communication."That means humans might be able to directly ask their dogs why it's barking or why a cat is meowing, and the pets could theoretically understand the human's words, beyond just …. See more videos about Videos, Zoology, Technology, Nature, Biology, Animals.

Senior AI Research Scientist at Earth Species Project Remote › Worldwide, 100% remote position (Posted Aug 3 2022) Job description The Earth Species Project (ESP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication and translating non-human language. ESP partners with biologists and machine learning researchers at universities and institutions around the world and we are honored to be supported by many forward-looking philanthropists and groups, including the Internet Archive, TED Audacious 2020, and the entrepreneur and author Reid Hoffman. Our work has been featured on NPR's Invisibilia documentary, "Two Heart Beats a Minute," "How to Talk to Animals" in Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything, "The Challenges of Animal Translation" in the New Yorker, published in Scientific Reports, and was honored at the inaugural Anthem Awards. We aim to enable every person to more deeply understand our co-inhabitants on Earth and in doing so, to permanently alter human perspective and culture. Purpose of role You will join an incredible and global remote team, and will be responsible for developing pioneering research towards decoding and translating non-human communication, including extending unsupervised translation techniques and tackling cornerstone biological and computational problems on large-scale multimodal behavioral datasets.

The Earth Species Project (ESP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication and translating non-human language. ESP partners with biologists and machine learning researchers at universities and institutions around the world and we are honored to be supported by many forward-looking philanthropists and groups, including the Internet Archive, TED Audacious 2020, and the entrepreneur and author Reid Hoffman. Our work has been featured on NPR's Invisibilia documentary, "Two Heart Beats a Minute," "How to Talk to Animals" in Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything, "The Challenges of Animal Translation" in the New Yorker, published in Scientific Reports, and was honored at the inaugural Anthem Awards. We aim to enable every person to more deeply understand our co-inhabitants on Earth and in doing so, to permanently alter human perspective and culture. You will join an incredible and global remote team, and will be responsible for developing pioneering research towards decoding and translating non-human communication, including extending unsupervised translation techniques and tackling cornerstone biological and computational problems on large-scale multimodal behavioral datasets.