Future Timeline

A group of scientists uploaded 7414 vocal calls from 411 pigs in all different situations into a neural network to train it to identify the animals' different emotional states. We now have a basic ability to understand what pigs are "saying."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07174-8

We could also probably train neural networks to decode pig emotions based on their physical movements (e.g. - running, rooting, sniffing). If paired with the vocal data, it would be a powerful tool for understanding them.

The technique could also be used on other animal species, raising the possibility that technology could let us communicate with and understand animals.

In the far future, brain implants will let us directly hear their thoughts and feel what they are feeling.

The goal of developing this technology is to enable all species to understand this concept: "We, of the Homo Sapiens, are your Masters, thus you will submit to our will!"

raklian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:21 pm The goal of developing this technology is to enable all species to understand this concept: "We, of the Homo Sapiens, are your Masters, thus you will submit to our will!"

Most certainly. But I'd also love to talk about random stuff with my dog if feasible.

Fish?

citali_ wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 11:31 pmFish?

While most fish aren't particularly intelligent, manta rays are actually allegedly pretty smart. I wouldn't mind listening into a manta ray's thoughts maybe.

R8Z wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:05 pm

raklian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:21 pm The goal of developing this technology is to enable all species to understand this concept: "We, of the Homo Sapiens, are your Masters, thus you will submit to our will!"

Most certainly. But I'd also love to talk about random stuff with my dog if feasible.

I hope there will be some facebook for our dogs and cats. Some say they are not interested in pictures with no smell and feel, but that is a simplification. They do like some video games a little, but I hope they will love a chance to communicate with some ones they know but like to see more often.
And to browse old photo albums, too.

I distinctly recall a news story from last decade, around my futurist born-again epiphany in 2014 in fact, where we had actually decoded a dolphin word:

Scientists Move One Step Closer to an Actual Dolphin-to-Human Translator

I'm unsure if anything came of this, but it's still neat. I imagine that this could be something AI and BCIs could further progress and that, by this time next decade, there will be active human-to-dolphin communication underway.

Artificial intelligence that could improve the welfare of farmed chickens by eavesdropping on their squawks could become available within five years, researchers say.

The technology, which detects and quantifies distress calls made by chickens housed in huge indoor sheds, correctly distinguished distress calls from other barn noises with 97% accuracy, new research suggests. A similar approach could eventually be used to drive up welfare standards in other farmed animals.

Each year, about 25 billion chickens are farmed around the world – many of them in huge sheds, each housing thousands of birds. One way to assess the welfare of such creatures is to listen to the sounds that they make.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... ir-squawks

Hi,

As today's era goes on as progress is made I think man will invent a toy that talks to animals and quite a few scientists are working on it I also have a farm where animals live. They are all made by me from the furniture.

Wonder what that would be like though I imagine a little weird in some situations.