If you pay attention to your pet and maybe read a little bit about them, you can already guess what they want to tell you. No need for AI here.
I know dogs have different types of barks to mean different things. Like an alarm bark when a stranger is approaching is different than a bark from play or being injured.
But in my experience, these are fairly unique to the individual. Not the species or the breed or the sex. So I don’t think any kind of “one size fits all” tech would work for this very well.
You’d also likely already know what the various sounds your dog makes mean if you’ve had the dog for a while.
“This leash demeans us both”
My dog is dumb as rocks but if you pay even a little bit of attention it’s obvious to understand what he is saying or thinking. This is cute but there’s not another layer of more complex communication these animals are trying to get across. What you see is what you get. Their simplicity is part of their beauty. They better engage our non dominant hemispheres. Adding language pushes things in the wrong direction.
AI slop meets e-waste.
In my efficient capitalism?
(/s)
It’s more likely than you think!
okay, but where are your balls?
ive seen an AI vacumn being sold, i was thinking who would buy htis kinda crap. it was basically a stripped down normal vacumn , the ones you pushed around.
Oh boy the new wave of grift from all the AI tech is here, more shit no one needs, please, stop buying shit.
It doesn’t need to translate, just provide definitive answers and even the dumbest dog or cat would learn how to make the different sounds, and then what they mean.
It’ll help pets communicate, but only for people who don’t pay attention. It won’t magically lead to deeper meaning
And absolutely doesn’t need AI.
The biological organisms can adapt, the tech doesn’t need to.
It’s definitely an interesting way to shrink those button boards. But it’ll only be useful if the owner gets trained to pay attention to their pet.
The entire point of this is that owners wouldn’t need to pay attention. Their pets collar will just blare simple words/phrases at them and sometimes it’ll be right
It’ll almost always say “feed me” and the pet will almost always want that, so it’s gonna feel like it’s working.
It helps pets communicate, but only pets who have bad/lazy owners.
Yeah; my point is that it could be as useful as a button board, but for most people it’ll be no different than something that detects ANY audio from a pet and plays a a random sound from a collection. And once the novelty wears off, they’ll ignore it the same way they were already ignoring their pet.
But for those few people that would already invest the time and effort in a button board, this could be useful as a mobile equivalent.
“Squirrel!”
