Japanese researchers say they used AI to try and translate the noises of clucking chickens and learn whether they're excited, hungry, or scared

Sounds like utter bullshit to me, but we’ll see what the peer review process comes out with.

Nobody should be reporting on studies that haven’t been peer reviewed. It’s often sensationalist nonsense, much like drugs that haven’t gone through clinical trials yet.

Interesting that they think there's a single universal voice amongst hens. I've got a small flock of a dozen birds, and they each have distinct voices and calls. You can always tell who just finished laying by which egg song you're hearing, until the others join in and it's a cacophony.

We've got one anericauna who likes to "scream" for her egg song. Awful sound, very close to a hen screaming because a bobcat got her.

We need this for babies :)

If they're not getting consent from those chickens to use their clucks as training data they're engaging in animal abuse. Stealing their voices, how cruel.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The AI system is based on a technique the researchers called "Deep Emotional Analysis Learning," which can adapt to changing vocal patterns.

The study found that the system was capable of translating "various emotional states in chickens, including hunger, fear, anger, contentment, excitement, and distress."

The researchers tested the system on 80 chickens for the study and collaborated with a team of animal psychologists and veterinarians.

The system was able to achieve surprisingly high accuracy in identifying the birds' emotional states, the study found.

"The high average probabilities of detection for each emotion suggest that our model has learned to capture meaningful patterns and features from the chicken sounds," it said.

The researchers acknowledged potential limitations, including variations in breeds and the complexity of some communications, such as body language.

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After spending the day reading about NLP, this is an interesting article to pop up on my feed to say the least...

Adrian (the PI) is such an unusual, mad genius kind of guy. Peer reviewed or not, it would be cool if he and others managed to help us understand animals better.

Would do they know their feelings in the first place? You need to have matched those feelings to sounds in the first place to train the model.