Using Brain Imaging and AI to Enable Animal Communication
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Summary
The article discusses the theoretical possibility of enabling animals to 'talk' using existing technology. It proposes combining real-time brain imaging (via surgical implants or non-invasive functional ultrasound), cameras, microphones, speakers, and microchips attached to animals like dogs. This data would be sent to an AI system that predicts what the animal would say if it could speak, with the speech then streamed back through the speaker, effectively creating a talking animal.
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Voice AI systems today take in arbitrary data and output reasonably accurate speech.
If someone attached a real-time brain imaging system, camera, microphone, speaker, and microchip onto a dog, all of this data could be sent up to an AI system on a server that takes in all the data and predicts what the dog would say if it could talk.
The speech gets streamed back to the microchip then to the speaker and your dog now speaks.
Where Evan discusses the simple process to make animals talk
