Model Summary of UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL ‘Languages’

(Part of Quiz # 3)

Through long observation and understanding, any communication and body

language signals can be identified. Slobodchikoff used Prairie dogs to translate
their growls, barks and calls into English. Similarly, research is on to build a
large database of emotional landmarks, voice tonality and facial expressions of
humans to decipher their emotional states as well as intended behaviour. This
has significant implications for autonomous cars in understanding pedestrian
behaviour, sports analytics to understand opponent actions and in
understanding patients with depression and autism. It could also enable
humans to interact with robots seamlessly.

This advance in AI will lead to a breakthrough in communications both with

humans as well as animals. Thus the emotionless computer could actually be
more accurate in predicting and deciphering emotional content than humans,
ironically.