This algorithm decodes rat squeaks and could revolutionize animal research

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Honestly I bet you would get better results w a comfortable few rats in a comfortable environment. I have had rats 30 plus years and I can tell alt from them but honestly I think this project will be better served studying established rat cultures in homes.

It sounds like whistling, I absolutely love this.

Everyone's teaching their cats and dogs to talk through buttons... but no one's teaching rats and octopuses to talk. I bet they have tons of things to say.

The man-things know!

Funny thing I once saw on a scientific video is that humans are the only species, rats don't recognize as enemies to their kind.

The only bad side of rats is that their lifespan is so short =(

Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but have there been findings/studies apart from "the software works so and so well and can also be applied to other animals" ?
Like how extensive is mice chatter and can we interpret it and so on. Would really like to know^^
And where would i find info about that if there was?

please tell me you'll keep on top of this

I would like to work with rats, where can I sign up

Imagine being the researcher to sift through and analyze the recordings of the rats in pain or discomfort.

For those that do want pet rats, please buy more than one.

So I have 2 rats- and I wanted to see if they’d respond to eat calls played through speakers- even when slowed they actually sometimes responded- one popped her head out from a box she was eating in, which I found interesting; of course this is just a one off and this was the only video i could find with actual rat calls, so I could’ve been a coincidence, in any which way I hope more rat calls are posted to yt so myself and maybe others can test this out more!

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Cool!

Their brain to body ratios are comparable to the great apes, and DNA studies have shown that rodents are in fact a sister taxon to primates - meaning they are our closest relatives on the tree of life, outside of the primates.

this like whistle at pool

They love Tequila Rose more, hence the rat size bottles.

Literally the best pets ever. Never underestimate the power of a tiny heart.

Kill them all they're nasty

I would love to get my hands on a microphone and that software. I have a cage full of females and too learn what they say and if they are truly happy would be fantastic.
I've been raising rats for about 14 years now and to learn more about what I can't hear would be great. I hear the normal play squeaks, fighting squeaks if one is being testy, teeth chatter and chatter that causes boggling. Please don't get just one rat, they need cage mates! And please, please do your research before getting any. Their care is specific and if you do it wrong it can cause health issues. They do make great pets but only have short life spans, so make the best life you can offer them. Finally they are called pocket puppies for a reason! 👍🏼🇨🇦

I so much wish I could hear my rats, and understand them! They are so danged smart, I know they have a great deal to teach me!

I'm in Seattle and keep a mischief of rats! How can I help record them? They are very well handled and relatively spoiled 😁I also know how to operate sound recording equipment

This makes good rat 🐀

It would be cool to let DeepSqueak process so many others, imagine! Like the complex sounds in bird calls, or whales, that would be awesome!!!

Given how today's AI can translate between human languages by representing them in abstract semantic spaces, it is in principle a possibility to extract meanings from animal squeaks. The main difficulty is that we don't have big data or ground truth labels for training language models for animal squeaks.

I love ratties ♥

I will always Love these Creatures!

"much faster than real-time" ... wut? are you sure? what is time and what is faster and is none of those things even faster?

Wow! this was 4 years ago....I wonder what they are doing this year in this project. They HAVE to be using the new AI models now!

As someone who's done some study of deep learning, this is fascinating! Also, rat laughs. 🥰

Their cacophony of squeeks sound like a forest of birds

one step closer to everyone realizing rats are just doggos.

all i want is the understand what my pet rats are talking about

I have pet rats.

They wre AMAZING and intelligent loving pets. I wish they lived longer.

Theyre basically like tiny dogs.

Rats! Such beautiful animals! Shout out to these gents for laying groundwork to a greater understanding of them!

I adopted my ratties from my local Humane Society. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🐀🐁🐀🐁

Once they add ai to their bank, I have no question that it will help them decode! to the infinity and beyond

If an algorithm is created that can effectively "translate" the intentions and emotions of animals, animal experimentation is about to get even darker than it is.

Who knows? Such a thing could finally help the majority of humanity bridge the gap in their empathy. Though, considering our history, that's an unlikely outcome.

Oh dang, it's finally happening.
I've been waiting for this.

I do enjoy rats

Let me suggest to you that you try calibrating rat vocalizations to the musical notes and or scales. Music expresses emotion and so do we, in our choices what notes and cadences we use, as we speak or exclaim. Rats probably express themselves the way babies do initially. Cries- sounds-without words, but loaded with emotions. I heard lonesomeness in the rat named " buddy" s call. A " where am i? Where is everybody? Is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me? Whats gonna happen to me now? Why am i in here?"

You said rats are social. Taking one lone rat out of its comfy,
familiar surroundings, with all its buddies, and putting it alone in an empty glass box is exactly like aliens --- or police, or prison guards, or white coated scientists-- taking us out of our home and away, putting one of us into a vast, empty glass box,, all alone, and leaving us there with no explanation. What sounds would YOU make? How would YOU make any sense of why this was happenning to you? What would YOU do???

You're queering your measurement by taking the subject out of its natural environment, Heisenberg!
You changed ALL the variables in one move!
Thats not the Scientific Method!
Would you haul a whale out of the ocean, and expect it to survive, much less give you good readings about it, in order to study it?
NO!
TRY this:
Put microphones on each rat on little individual vests, wifi or bluetooth. Put a unique color LED on each individual vest, that lights when the microphone detects rat sound. Film it. Time stamp them together . Then you can go back and match sounds recorded to which LEDS lit, when. You can slow these down to listen to who said what, when.
Once your rats are used to their vests and no longer bother over them, THEN start recording.
OR, start when you first introduce their vests, as you might get surprise, aggravation, puzzlement, questions-- that you'll hear in the slowed down audio!!!
All this, in their normal, social, active surroundings, NOT empty glass boxes!!!
In situ, au naturel!
Understand?
Between the natural expressions and the matching sound to musical notes or scales, you should be able to discern their moods, questions, meanings, because we ourselves do this, regardless of what language we use. Animals tell our state by our tone, not our words. We have too many words to decode. But tone immediately tells them our mood. Is the human Angry? Surprised? Sad? Encouraging? Scolding? Praising?
Rats will use the same. It's universal.
Have a musicology teacher help you figure out what notes or scales are consistent with what you observe the rat doing when its making a particular sound. Sad notes, happy notes, mournful notes, questioning notes, angry notes-- musicians can decode these for you.
Oh, and try whistling to them what you want to communicate. Same cadence as you'd speak it, but whistle it, instead.
Maybe something like " you want this?" And offer a nut.---
---Like that.
❤😊

There is a ton out there?

There are a ton out there.

Ghostrunner music? Wyd??

They used AI without knowing it was "AI" yet.

Saying that neural networks were invented for self driving cars is just about the most Verge thing I've ever seen

DeepSqueak could be trained to recognize many other animals calls — what animal would you train it to study?