On 1/16/2018 11:54 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android>On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: On 1/16/2018 8:55 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:--What is the craziest AI application you can think of? A machine learned pet translator perhaps... they're actually working on that app, Amazon amongst others. So, it seems the big players Google as well, are running in that race... think of the potential market of pet owners forking over their hard earned money to hear what the Google machine is telling them their dog is telling them. I can imagine the marketing folks dreaming about that market. As an aside also a commentary on how out of touch, we humans have become from the world in which we exist. People already understand dog language :)Of course teaching the AI requires lots of training examples, so you will need people to translate what their dog is saying to create the training examples. Google will probably try to get people to do this online, similar to the way they got visual identification training examples. But the really interesting point is that not only do people understand dogs, it's also the case that dogs understand people. So when Google's dog->human translate says, "Fido says the mailman is here." will Fido be able to listen to that and say, "Rowf" -> "That's right."? Brent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We might not want to always hear what our animals are saying about us behind our backs... I see a potential law suit hehe :) I believe, only half joking here... that a training set already exists somewhat in the public domain. In the ever growing historical repository comprised of all those pet videos uploaded online, and that dataset probably contains vast numbers of clips of people trying to understand their pet vocalizations as well as dogs (and to a lesser degree more aloof cats) listening intently to what their people are saying. In fact I bet that a substantial body of raw video feed exists even for more exotic human-other-species interactions... say parrots... tegu lizards perhaps... cute little rodents.. gold fish... tarantulas... you name it. A vast body of historical feed already exists.
If we use that Google translations will turn all dogs into standup comedians. :-)
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