Father of the internet Vint Cerf reignites mission to use the internet to talk with animals
16 January 2021 • 5:00am
Javier Sanchez, a former Amazon Alexa engineer, has bought a new Siamese cat. Mochi (which his children lovingly named after the Japanese dessert) has a destiny far greater than a simple family pet: she is the test pilot for his cat translation app, MeowTalk.
“They have a very unusual voice,” Sanchez says. “I’ve been told that the app was not working as well with breeds that have high pitched or low pitched voices so I wanted to see for myself.”
MeowTalk can tell cat owners if their pet is communicating one of nine categories such as being defensive or mating call after they upload its meow. It combines the technology behind Amazon Alexa and Google’s voice assistant and years of cat communication research. The most difficult part, Sanchez says, was simply making the app run at scale for the more than two million phones that downloaded it in t
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A macaques monkey looking into the mirror of a motorbike in the grounds of a temple in Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees but not monkeys can recognize themselves in mirrors. I bought into the story of mirrors and self-recognition hook, line, and sinker, he recalls. Because it is a compelling story.
All it took was a simple mirror, or so the story went, to reveal that our close chimpanzee relatives are self-aware, with the same kind of basic self-concept that humans have.
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