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Seems like a pretty big problem that you don't know when any of your data is valid. What if every single whale or cat speaks a different language? It's not like

• api 4y ago
  If they actually have language there are going to be commonalities or it would be worthless as such. There could of course be regional languages or dialects in more intelligent social animals just like humans.
  • astrange 4y ago
    They don't necessarily have shared "language". Cat meows are for one person (their owner) while they use body language and other sounds to communicate with each other.
• inetknght 4y ago
  > What if every single whale or cat speaks a different language? It's not like animals have English class. No, but they have parents. I am sure they have taught languages. Just ask any cat lady who will swear their cats understand them. I'd be more concerned that different regions have different languages and we'd need to control for that.
  • melagonster 4y ago
    this can be more terrible. If we don't let human baby contact to another human, they will lose ability of language. how many puppy take from their mother at first day after birth?
• zenkat 4y ago
  The post goes into this in some detail. In human languages, the embeddings for specific concepts seem to follow very similar geometric relationships no matter what language. If that holds across species, then you could use geometric similarity to map animal embeddings to human concepts. Also, since chatbots just output "meaningful" strings of tokens based on a string of input tokens, you can build a chatbot that can "talk" to animals without us necessarily being able to understand it. But sure how useful that would be, but interesting nonetheless.