The tribe relationship with the "honey gatherer" bird is truly amazing, I never thought that could be possible with wild birds, only carefully trained ones

If we can develop a dialog with the animals are we prepared to listen to a scolding for our behavior?

A daughter of a fisherman here in the amazon, today she is an engineer, told me once fisher men here cooperate with river dolphins when fishing. I certainly couldn´t doubt an educated woman tell me that.

Elephants and whales is one thing, but let´s see is this AI is capable of helping communicating with my wife

I cried. This is Spiritualality. I feel like we’re learning God’s voices.

As a kid, I remember the album “Songs of the Humpback Whales” although we didn’t have a copy. What I did have was a little vinyl disc that came with a National Geographic. I was fascinated and listened to the recording over and over.

Dr.Dolittle would be proud.

Really appreciate how thought provoking this piece is. Not just for the science, but what the science means for our future. Bravo!

Still Learning. And the world's waiting.

Moved to tears. Stunning and profound. Thank you for this.

4:01 100,000 whales !!! I won't lie, my eyes opened wide with shock.

Excellent work. Really pushing Wittgenstein's 'If a lion could speak we couldn't understand it' hypothesis to the limit.

Fish: "Give it a rest with the plastics y'all"

Human: "I'm so sorry!" Whale: "No you're not, idiot" *sinks boat*

This is a great use for IA technolgy so much we could learn.. I hope this is not used to hurt nature.

Do we really need to be able to fully communicate with animals to recognize they have feelings and that they are sentient? Some people make up a million excuses no matter how much evidence you put in front of them, they keep creating this imaginary barrier between humans and animals to justify their behavior. That said I'm really glad this research is being done, in actuality thanks to this kind of research one day these people won't be able to do any more mental gymnastics in order to hurt and take advantage of animals.

RIP Roger Payne (1935-2023). You were an inspiration to so many lives, human and animal. You will be missed dearly.

I can imagine a future life sciences class for children where they can remotely ask animals questions from a classroom in California to a savanna in Africa 🌍 ❤

Sounds of whales, of elephants and birds are the most interesting to me. Hope people care a lot more. Its pretty amazing to see the capability ancestors have to live in an environment without destroying it; learning instead. I wonder what animals can tell us. You know. I also hope IA will be used properly. Ethic is highly important. Thank you for this opportunity to see what is going on in terms of decoding sounds by artificial intelligence. It was beautiful to see the man who made possible to listen to whales’ sounds and initiate a new “wave’ in terms of caring and preserving them. So sad to see him with all his mental faculties but dying. Another big ? When science can discover a cure against cancer.

Mr Payne is amazing. Gods speed to him.

I hope the AI’s interpretation is better than Google translate. Otherwise, the animals are going to think we are complete morons.

I love hearing the communication that's being studied, hopefully . Not to late

You better learn how to say "We are sorry" in Mediterranean Orca. They are a bit miffed at humans right now.

So amazing. Gives you pause as to your walk on this planet

The honey guides are amazing.

Starts @ 2:42.

I: Hi kitty, nice to meet you! My cat: (silence) -_- I: Okay, well, How are you today My cat: Less talk!, more food! .

The best of days Tim. One of your best days so far(since staring your show on utube.) Im so happy for you on this day of big and little beauties. What a hard day though,you must be knackered. I felt pretty tired and i was on my behind. I hope the honey hole keeps giving up the larger beauties and the smaller ones also,but mainly the larger ones. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💎😃💎😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 [WHAT A DAY😊💎😊] this was ment for Tim's Adventures . He mines for sapphires in Australia. It's also great we're starting to learn how to listen then learn how the other animals on this planet communicate. Its about time!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤔😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

When he asked who and how would they use this? Like more murderous criminals would use it to hunt. That should be immediately outlawed before they even develope this and not wait. Also we have to remember that government finds two reasons for everything first can they weaponize it and second can they monetize it. Its sad their aim is never how can we help the planet?

Amazing!

They're working on reading the human mind right now.

Thank you ROGER!!!! ❤❤❤

This is what money should go to. All the millions billions even going into research of AIs capabilities, its things such as this that it should be spent on. What could possibly be more exciting than having a conscious understanding with an animal?

At 06:09 "..the importance of the complete interworking of all species, all knitted together, then we will miss an understanding of everything that's going on that really matters" -Payne

I can see this working for animals in the wild as those animals grew up and presumably were taught by other animals. Domesticated animals may be a challenge as they were taught by humans with little to no contact with members of their species.

They should try to figure out what parakeets are nattering on about all day long. I think they are scandalous gossips.

Love your work. Absolutely amazing. Constructive Feedback: listening to this on 2x and can't tell that it's sped up. Slow production content is a bottleneck imo.

If the first thing you do to a whale is say im sorry, when does the whale rebel against you for using psychology to give the whale an inferiority complex?

Amazing documentary. I've always known that species had their own language, even though we don't understand it yet Reminds me of how the Greeks and Romans viewed the celts and germanic tribes. All they heard was Bar Bar Bar (hence, barbarian). But, these tribes had languages as distinct as latin or greek. So, hopefully, we can evade our anthrocentricism enough to try to hear what others in nature are saying.

Will humanity decide to use the information gained from animals for the better? Or will we ignore animals who are telling us to stop raping the environment? Animals and nature as a whole have been effectively screaming at us to stop taking it for granted. We need to start working on long-term climate solutions before it's too late. I think it's time we ignore those arrogant and sociopathic humans who are deaf to nature and let them suffer their own miserable end.

“Its nearly falling asleep”. Probably because you have it in a finger triangle choke..

Reminds me of B-12 from Stray.

Bought that record way back when I was at U of Illinois, C-U in music.

I was going to invent this!

I would have imagined They would also let the machine learning also have real-time video data to patern activities actions or responses with the audio . Seems like they don't. Might only work in controlled environments like habitats or zoos

From SETI to CETI. It's about time AI is put to good work. ETs will not consider us worthy unless we attempt our best to communicate with I.T (intraterrestrial Intelligence). Don't limit this to linguisticsm animal communicate at many levels they are Empaths.

It makes me weep when I think about the fact that on average animal life on Earth has declined 69% just since 1970 (except human animal life), and climate change tipping points will only accelerate the decline. Another 50 years is dire for wild life. At the present rate of decline, even stopping the worst of climate change will not save the diversity, of animal life on Earth. Humans must change the way they live on this planet before it is too late, and probably already is too late.

We don’t have to speak to animals to show respect or restraint. We can do that right now. And they don’t need to speak to us, if you pay attention they are already communicating plenty.

I am Twain! 🐾

Ya, but can you tell me what my cat is saying? And can I reply? Can I have a robot to interface with my pets? (I don't want them to leave the yard, or if they do, I want them to come back. Or they could just call if they are in trouble (like if there's a coyote))

What an idea. Of course, if A.I. can interprete the human language, why not animal "languages". Like that we can try to understand better, about what animals do to communicate.

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Scientists should develop a robotic bat that can fly with other bats, looks like other bats, and has the ability to make and record bat vocalization .

Animals that cannot communicate well with sound use additional means of communication. Much like humans that think in pictures so do some animals. AIs are limited in their ability to communicate in pictorial languish.

Has anyone attempted to communicate with ant bee? You know, ant bee from the Andy Griffith show. She can bee temperamental.

I do this at the zoo with KZfaq. Lol. They will come up and chit chat with ya.

nice

Woof!

Why are none of these researching people (or this journalist) asking them selves the question if animals really need/want this intrusion of humans wanting to use AI to “talk” to them? Could we not just be reeking more havoc on nature as we have done for hundreds of years now with yet another blind fascination with our own “new technology of the month”?

I wonder if AI can figure out how to communicate with Sasquatch.

I really want to know what the Indri lemur sings about 😊

Human to elephant via AI. "Hello, Mr. Elephant. Would you like to play a game?" Elephant to human via AI. "Hello, human. Why yes. Can I choose the game to play?" Human via AI answers "Yes, you may. What would you like to play?" Elephant via AI answers. "Global thermonuclear war" With the humans extinct the world will heal and the animal kingdom will thrive again.

You know what this film needs more of? Closeups of Sam Eaton. /s

Real? I didn't see any scientists in the final bird/honey story. How do these birds pass knowledge to descendants?

How do we fix this mess?? Is the best question.

through AI and ML or through whatever other knowledge , hopefully one day we find a way to communicate with animals specially 2 most popular pets cats and dogs

This is gonna get big.. Reminds me of the "Tower of Babel".. Lets hope the story ends differently!

I love floating on my back in the Charlotte Harbor and listen to the dolphin clicks If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

I love this kind of stuff but they should have left the guppy demo out...lol. I don't know why you need AI to make a poorly done fake fish wobble back and forth unconvincingly in a tank. Even the other fish were unimpressed. That one fish was just being like those people who slow down as they pass an accident on the highway trying to get a better look.

How about non-verbal communications? Elephants, dolphins, bats differ in more than one ways.

Maybe other species are capable of learning how to communicate with the robot.

Forget the rhetoric. With rich people running the world, how do you think things will turn out?

The disease of greed and lack of empathy narcisim jealousy and addictions plus others in humans needs curing... before the diseased humans get their hands and minds involved with this. This could be beautiful if humans are fixed first.

so if we prove that animals can communicate with us will that make it more viable to rescue them? to save the species? why? can one not just let them be as they are and respect their life as is..human interfere in every sphere in nature only to ruin it all in the end.

Wouldn't it be interesting conversations...

ask the orcas why "they" are sinking boats?

science: humans can't communicate with animals. also science: we cant say that A.i can communicate with animals. also also science: send us your donations for more research we wont be able to find concrete answers to.

Magnificent undertaking yet far too appealing for greed. Fabulous but terrifying. Humans just aren't kind enough to benefit from AI. Yes, we're sorry--but some aren't.

_"at a time when the world was killing a over a hundred thousand whales per year"_ That wasnt "the world" doing that. That was just a few greedy humans (or sub-humans, depending on your perspective).

Is it all talking ....even the microbes

There's human bias all over this experiment, starting with the assumption that elephants call to each other by name. Hopefully, AI will tell these grad students to get a real job.

I'm amazed how still in 2024 such a serious subject can be inaundated with such superficial and irrelevant ads! Western Civ at it's finest!

Language. There are millions of languages on this planet. Non of them are AI. Get real. Get in touch physically and energetically.

OMG YOU DONT NEED COMPUTERS TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANIMALS….communicating with animals is something we can all do naturally…im not saying in know how to do it but it can be learned….sometimes they are called pet psychics but I don’t like that term..i like animal communicator better, if they were psychic they wouldn’t even need to pet…the information is coming from the pet it’s self…so animal communication is more appropriate.

OMG...You need to comprehend a whole different and more direct visual assessment process before you suppose you can 'talk to animals', which includes communal attunement at a psychic level at times, though there is no specific in-species limitation. We aren't the only ones to see broader landscapes, and that still tests our concept of 'science' for a large percentage. AI may get you there, but it's your own overview that needs a preliminary overhaul first. Our own thoughts steeped in words alone can be a limitation. Direct perception for integrating conceptions is simpler...and more encompassing. To strive for less is stupidity steeped hubris. Animal interactions are categorically situational and contextual, often in-species "tribe" specific. But the overlap is astounding. "Human" emotions are shared by a great many other animals, as they would seem indicative of consciousness with highly similar brain structure and social interaction requirements. This being the sixth Great Mass Extinction, this inquiry may be too little too late for those still trying to figure life out. The response of even "wild" animals to human kindness when fear is absent has been amazing time and again, as demonstrated in our new cellphone-recording culture. But, for example, old and new stories of dolphins depositing would-be drowning victims on shore, etc., shows they comprehend interspecies compassion, recognizing us as a relevant and complex species ourselves. And size isn't necessarily relevant, as the remnants of dinosaur existence, birds, have shown us. I've been personally chased down and scolded six inches from my nose for letting a humming bird feeder go dry...and it wasn't even my house, just the human that walked out the door near it. Though I can't attest to actual animosity on said bird's part. Whether pleading, exasperation or mere FYI was involved is anybody's guess:) I took it to heart, apologized regardless and reversed course, fruitlessly searching out immediate remedy. There can be no other interpretation for my small compadre's effort. (Never give them honey, sugar water.) The dive team that freed a whale hopelessly entangled in fishing gear, and likely facing death as hard pressed to surface for a breath at this point, tell the tale of a grateful giant going in a circle on the surface to look each rescuer directly in the eye as they patted her in acknowledgement, only to spend extra time with the first instigating member on scene, the last member confronted. A clear effort at appreciation and acknowledgement of love and compassion by an entity capable of both. AI is not just one computer. Dire warnings about the potential for human destruction are no joke. An AI, carefully dislodged from internet control, was asked how it would destroy mankind, if it could, resulted in a one-day and done plan complete with animosity for the humans involved with asking the question. This shows how completely lacking their substructure was of any basic predetermined values. Artificial Intelligence must have a nearer basis of appreciation and compassion in some sort of approximation before it's given access to the 'real' world to any 'real' extent, if ever. As an effort to assuage our fears, asking an AI to learn manipulation and genocide from human history and current circumstances doesn't seem to protect it or us from the inevitable evil human examples. Or is it just cold practicality?

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam (Peace and Blessings be upon him) said, “By the One in Whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until wild animals speak to people, and the end of a man’s whip speaks to him, and his shoelace, and a man’s thigh tells him of what his family did after he left.” [Al-Hakim].

If we start talking to them we will tell them to fight wars in the bane of race and religion do it’s best we don’t do what we are best at doing!

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I think we know animals have language..but should humans interfere

I'm getting chills this is freaking scary! Come on think about it!😮

you need to find the animal psychic have her interpret

Ban AI

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Unfortunately, i doubt this type of technology would move mankind the way some are hopeful for... i mean look at how humans treat humans and increasingly more and more barbaric and inhumane treatment we do to eachother... it will change though at some point in time though. There will be an expansion of Divine Consciousness. Everyone will know.

Human animals still will not listen if other animals tell us what we are doing is not okay because the rich and cruel rule until we take them down globally.

Good use of artificial intelligence here....!! Yet, I think it a pity that this new technology is being used against people.......!!!

I don´t think animals have an understanding of the universe as we do.. I guess they live a day by day life and day by day communication. That´s all, ! It is up to humans to educate them , protect them and guide them. But of course before all that we need to educate a lot of people!

Solving endangered animals is easy: remove humans.

Thank you for this wonderful insight - maybe we can start an AI renaissance of the Garden of Eden by filtering out the human bias?! God bless Dr Roger Payne. If I were a younger man, I would step right into his shoes. However, I work in cancer research.