人工智能如何帮助科学家和动物交谈

高齐云

Have you ever imagined1 being able to talk to your pet at home and havethem understand everything you say？

Professor Karen Bakker told a magazine that AI is already helping humanstalk to bats and honeybees. That could change what we know about nature，animals and people.

Professor Bakker said AI helped us understand the recordings2 of animalstalking to one another. She said trying to talk in their languages could be betterthan teaching animals to use human sign language.

Researcher Yossi Yovel used recordings and AI to understand bats. Batsfight for food; they tell the genders3 when they talk with one another; they havenames. Mother bats speak to their babies in a mothers way.

Professor Bakker said it was a great example of how animal talking could beseen using sensors4 and microphones5. That would never be heard with thehuman ear. AI makes it because a computer can be trained to listen like a bat.

Professor Bakker said when honeybees “speak”to one another， its theirbody movements， as well as the sounds， that matter. Now computers are able tofollow this because you can use computer to see and listen to the languages theyuse. A researcher even made a robot honeybee that went into a hive6. It couldtalk to other bees when it wanted them to stop doing something or fly.

你有沒有想过能够在家里和你的宠物说话，而它们能听懂你说的一切呢？

卡伦·巴克教授告诉一家杂志，人工智能已经在协助人类与蝙蝠和蜜蜂交谈。这可能会改变我们对自然、动物和人类的认识。

巴克教授说，人工智能帮助我们理解动物在相互交谈时的录音。她说，尝试用它们的语言交谈可能比教动物学习使用人类手语更好。

研究人员约西·约维尔通过使用录音和人工智能来理解蝙蝠。蝙蝠为食物而战；在互相交谈时，它们会区分性别；它们都有名字。蝙蝠妈妈用妈妈的方式和孩子们说话。

巴克教授说，这是一个很好的例子，可以说明如何使用传感器和麦克风“看”到动物说话。这是人类耳朵永远听不到的语言。人工智能之所以能这样做，是因为可以训练计算机像蝙蝠一样倾听。

巴克教授说，当蜜蜂互相“说话”时，除了声音之外，它们的身体动作也十分重要。现在计算机可以理解这些动作，因为人们可以使用计算机看和听它们所用的语言。一位研究人员甚至制作了一个蜜蜂机器人，它进入了一个蜂巢。当它想让其他蜜蜂停止做某事或飞行时，可以与这些蜜蜂对话。