Our AI systems "work" because we can derive meaning from the words that we feed into it, right? We put words in, train, and words come out. How would that exactly work with animals?
"Woof in, woof out" still means not knowing what the woof's all about.
Don't get me wrong, I have often thought about this exact question: that surely we are close to finding a way to communicate with animals or at the very least study them at greater lengths through the use of LLMs and similar systems. However, I have yet to find the exact way in which we can do this.
I'm sure we can create an LLM that mimics the expressions and behavior of animals (much like we have created LLMs that "mimic" us). But that will still give us very limited interpretability. It will definitely allow us to tinker with the inputs without needing a real animal, but that still gives us a very limited understanding of what exactly is going on.
I would definitely pour my heart and soul into such a project :)
"Woof in, woof out" still means not knowing what the woof's all about.
Don't get me wrong, I have often thought about this exact question: that surely we are close to finding a way to communicate with animals or at the very least study them at greater lengths through the use of LLMs and similar systems. However, I have yet to find the exact way in which we can do this.
I'm sure we can create an LLM that mimics the expressions and behavior of animals (much like we have created LLMs that "mimic" us). But that will still give us very limited interpretability. It will definitely allow us to tinker with the inputs without needing a real animal, but that still gives us a very limited understanding of what exactly is going on.
I would definitely pour my heart and soul into such a project :)