Even though this application appears to replicate the sounds birds make, it does not appear to have any understanding as to *what* it is saying. Perhaps through making various utterances and observing birds behavior, they will be able to infer certain meanings that are associated with certain sounds..
Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [agi] neural nets > Could this be the beginning of getting a computer to communicate with a bird in > its own bird-language? I am referring to an earlier discussion where I figured > it may be easier for a computer, not a human, to communicate in a less complex > animal language rather than human language with NLP using phonemes. Ben's > observation about the problem of the communication being very situational and > highly dependent on the environment seems valid, but this experiment shows me > that when they add listening to sounds to complete the communication loop, > maybe there is potential to get this system to talk Bird, but hopefully not > Bird gibberish. > > Interesting read on an application of neural nets.. > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993240 > > > > ------- > > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your > > subscription, > > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
