Ever wonder what your dog is thinking?
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Ever wonder what your dog is thinking?
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#2> In the future, we have talked about analysing a pet’s body in addition to its face in order to improve the accuracy.
I think that's vital. Most of "Dog language" and even more of "Cat language" consists of body language. Things like pose and tension in relation to the rest of the things in the area at the moment. Dogs and cats are gifted with the ability to "speak human" enough to be understood tolerably well, but their language is demonstrably more complicated.
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#3> In the future, we have talked about analysing a pet’s body in addition to its face in order to improve the accuracy. I think that's vital. Most of "Dog language" and even more of "Cat language" consists of body language. Things like pose and tension in relation to the rest of the things in the area at the moment. Dogs and cats are gifted with the ability to "speak human" enough to be understood tolerably well, but…
And many emotional displays are transient, like stress induced yawns in dogs (I note stress isn't in their top 5 list but it's common during training and learning new things).
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#4So an app on your phone, looking out through a camera on your glasses, could issue a security alert for very angry or scared people or animals in view. It seems a natural for Chinese style surveillance nets. Or it could be a learning tool or a prosthetic for the autistic. Real time AI assisted seduction/sales/politics/negotiation might become practical. How about an app for "reading the room".
People with the skills to read the subtleties of others' emotions have a great advantage. This tech could make some of that skill downloadable from the app store. Using it to tell if your cat is mad at you seems like the least of it.
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#5Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed.
It said she was angry.
To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised.
But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
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#6Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed. It said she was angry. To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised. But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
> But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
You bring up a fair point, but I don't think AI is special in this regard. Imperfect sources of information synthesis (humans, naive algorithms, etc) are used all the time. Hopefully, AI should simply add one more data point from which to understand a given situation.
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#7Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed. It said she was angry. To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised. But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
> But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something? You bring up a fair point, but I don't think AI is special in this regard. Imperfect sources of information synthesis (humans, naive algorithms, etc) are used all the time. Hopefully, AI should simply add one more data point from which to understand a given situation.
People, presently seem much less willing to challenge what a computer says however.
I'm wondering if Little Britain's "computer says no"[1] sketch is somewhat foreshadowing here. It's certainly a situation I've ran in to in several banks (globally).
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#8Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed. It said she was angry. To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised. But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
> But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
I worry that the pace at which things like this will get packaged as “absolutely reliable, scientifically proven” technologies to all sorts of consumers will be far greater than the pace at which our language catches up with abstract ideas with which nuances can be widely communicated.
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#9One of the things I like about my cat (Eleanor Roosevelt, a one eyed Maine Coon that sat in the local SPCA for 8 months) is that I don't try to understand her. She does her thing, mostly involving naps and head scratches, and I just admire her calm and general contentment. Whatever your dog or cat is thinking, I would suggest you just leave it alone and appreciate the life those animals live that seem so contented. Who wouldn't want that?
Re: Ever wonder what your dog is thinking?
#10One of the things I like about my cat (Eleanor Roosevelt, a one eyed Maine Coon that sat in the local SPCA for 8 months) is that I don't try to understand her. She does her thing, mostly involving naps and head scratches, and I just admire her calm and general contentment. Whatever your dog or cat is thinking, I would suggest you just leave it alone and appreciate the life those animals live that seem so contented. W…
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