A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (£110) on its website, Hangzhou-based company Meng Xiaoyi says its PettiChat device uses artificial intelligence to i...
It doesn’t need to translate, just provide definitive answers and even the dumbest dog or cat would learn how to make the different sounds, and then what they mean.
It’ll help pets communicate, but only for people who don’t pay attention. It won’t magically lead to deeper meaning
And absolutely doesn’t need AI.
The biological organisms can adapt, the tech doesn’t need to.
It’s definitely an interesting way to shrink those button boards. But it’ll only be useful if the owner gets trained to pay attention to their pet.
The entire point of this is that owners wouldn’t need to pay attention. Their pets collar will just blare simple words/phrases at them and sometimes it’ll be right
It’ll almost always say “feed me” and the pet will almost always want that, so it’s gonna feel like it’s working.
It helps pets communicate, but only pets who have bad/lazy owners.
Yeah; my point is that it could be as useful as a button board, but for most people it’ll be no different than something that detects ANY audio from a pet and plays a a random sound from a collection. And once the novelty wears off, they’ll ignore it the same way they were already ignoring their pet.
But for those few people that would already invest the time and effort in a button board, this could be useful as a mobile equivalent.