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.

And we focus really on the athletic part of it. I think, though, that if you do a good job on the athletic part, which is also kind of the low-level part, you can make it easier for high-level AI to interact with you." In other words, it's much easier to direct a robot to take care of a task for you if you've already taught the robot how to stand, walk, navigate, and so on.