Some notes from a talk by Asa Raskin.
- Some notes from a talk by Asa Raskin.
- Asa co-founded the Center for Humane Technology and is now working on the Earth Species Project to use AI to understand animals' communication.
- "The way we treat animals is the way AI will treat us."
- He talked about a dolphin study where dolphins were trained to do something novel on a cue.
- Keeping track of what they had previously done so they didn't duplicate an action required significant intelligence.
- They then asked the dolphins to do something novel as a pair.
- The dolphins would communicate back and forth and then simultaneously do the same novel action, demonstrating extremely rich communication.
- "It's not when we speak that we change, but when we listen."
- That's why it's not about "communicating with animals" but "understanding animals" that is his goal.