Talking with Animals.

Elodie F. Briefer, an associate professor in animal behavior at the University of Copenhagen, has shown that it's possible to assess animals' emotional states based on their vocalizations. Beyond creating chatbots that woo people and producing art that wins fine-arts competitions, machine learning may soon make it possible to decipher things like crow calls, says Aza Raskin, one of the founders of the nonprofit Earth Species Project. Soon "we'll be able to pass the finch, crow or whale Turing test", Raskin asserts, referring to the point at which the animals won't be able to tell they are conversing with a machine rather than one of their own. [Extracted from the article]