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Can We Use AI to Communicate with Animals?
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- janalsncm 4y agoIt’s paywalled but the main issue I see is in getting useful labels on data. For example, we might know that dolphins make all sorts of noises but without any information about what those noises are it will be basically impossible derive any deeper meaning.
- blamestross 4y agoModern translation actually doesn't use labels much, it uses structural alignment. I'm more concerned with how to make a comparable "corpus" to human languages.
- throwaway1851 4y agoWell, there’s an implicit label, isn’t there? Translation models are shown pairs of texts in two languages, so the implicit label is “these two texts are saying the same thing”. Won’t you always need some form of supervision to learn the mapping from one domain to another?
- janalsncm 4y agoYes the canonical examples are called parallel corpuses. Sentence pairs of (english_sentence, french_sentence). Because we don’t know what dolphins are saying in the first place, there’s no way to generate a parallel corpus.
- withinboredom 4y agoWe can’t even get human languages right. I can imagine walking into a Lion pen with a steak and saying “here is your lunch, eat up!” and having it converted to “I am your lunch, eat me!”