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New $5.39 million research center will explore how AI could let humans talk to pets


The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, which is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK's capital city, will start...

Prof Jonathan Birch, the inaugural director of the centre, warned that while being able to understand what your pets are trying to communicate would be fantastic, AI is known to make up responses that please the users rather than being grounded in objective reality. It was reported in April that Google was using a new AI model and Pixel phones to try to understand dolphins and eventually converse with the mammals. The aptly named DolphinGemma large language model could interpret whistles, clicks, squawks, and other noises made by everyone's favorite sea creature.

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